[RFC] Do we need a hashtag #tag in the TLS?

[cwittern]

The taxonomy of concepts and the concepts themselves is a built-in way to organize citations and other annotations into meaningful groups.

Some times, however, a more light-weight approach is needed, where a researcher can mark things ad-hoc when working with the system and spotting something interesting to review, analyze and organize them at a later stage. For this, I propose to use "hashtags" that can be attached, for example to citations.

While these tags usually do not have a semantic beyond the one expressed in the tag itself, they could be tied to a hierarchical tree in the same way as the concepts or syntactical functions are, and given more meaning there.

Such tags might be of general interest, or simple created and used on the fly by individual researchers. Therefore, beside a global namespace, researchers should be able to organize tags in their own namespace as well. And finally, maybe there should also be a provision for research groups?