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TagTeam

Harvard University
United States of America
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Mission

TagTeam is an open-source tagging platform and feed aggregator developed for the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP) at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. In addition to ordinary social tagging and bookmarking, TagTeam supports tag contributions from multiple platforms ("interoperable tagging"), the evolution of standard tag vocabularies ("folksonomy in, ontology out"), and boolean feed aggregation ("remix feeds"). Every tag and search publishes a feed in RSS, Atom, and JSON. TagTeam can subscribe to feeds from other platforms, and remix them with its own feeds. It stores all its tag records for deduping, export, preservation, modification, and search.

Key Achievements

It hosts more than 400 "hubs" or tagging projects. The largest and best-known is the Open Access Tracking Project. OATP moved to TagTeam in 2012 and is widely considered the world's most comprehensive source of OA-related news and comment.
https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_Tracking_Project

Technical Attributes

Maintenance Status

Minimally Maintained

Open Code Repository

Implemented
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Technical Documentation

Implemented
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Code License

Implemented
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Open Data Statement

Implemented
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Technical Attribute Statements

Technology Readiness Level

  • Actual system proven in operational environment

Code Licenses Used

  • GNU General Public License (GPL)

Standards

Integrations

RSS, Atom, JSON

Additional Information

Organizational History

TagTeam was initially developed (2011) to meet the needs of the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP). But it's now a general-purpose tool for open, tag-based research projects on any topic. OATP is now just one of many hubs in TagTeam.
TagTeam has been funded by the Arcadia Fund (2011-2016) and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (2016-2018).
The founder (Peter Suber) is now looking for a nonprofit organization to take over both TagTeam and the Open Access Tracking Project.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hexI0i0L4lWN2rqGLUr364kbKIU3HPIXbml4Juhe57w/edit

Organizational Structure

Business or Ownership Model

Volunteer community

Full-time Staff

0

Volunteers

More than 20

Current Affiliations

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Funding

Primary Funding Source

Foundation grants

Financial Reporting Level

I don't understand the question.

Funding Needs

As mentioned above, I (Peter Suber) am now looking for a nonprofit organization to take over both TagTeam and the Open Access Tracking Project.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hexI0i0L4lWN2rqGLUr364kbKIU3HPIXbml4Juhe57w/edit
Ideally the org would pay for the further development of TagTeam and hire a community manager for OATP. I'm willing to help it apply for grants for that purpose. But now that I'm semi-retired, I don't want to take the lead to apply for those grants myself.
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