====== MOAT: Meaning Of A Tag ======

MOAT (Meaning Of A Tag) provides a [[http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/|Semantic Web]] framework to publish semantically-annotated content from free-tagging.

While tags are widely used in Web 2.0 services, their lack of machine-understandable meaning can be a problem for information retrieval, especially when people use tags that can have different meanings depending on the context.

MOAT aims to solve this by providing a way for users to define meaning(s) of their tag(s) using URIs of Semantic Web resources (such as URIs from [[http://dbpedia.org|dbpedia]], [[http://geonames.org|geonames]] ... or any knowledge base), and then annotate content with those URIs rather than free-text tags, leveraging content into Semantic Web, by [[http://linkeddata.org|linking data]] together.
Moreover, tag meanings can be shared between people, providing an architecture of participation to define and exchange potential meanings of tags within a community of users.

To achieve this goal, MOAT relies on an [[architecture]] that can be deployed for any organisation or community and that involves a lightweight [[ontology]], a MOAT [[server]], and some third-party [[clients]] .