Meanwhile, down at Sanctuary Buildings it seems the DFES mandarins have started talking “taggish”. No, it’s not some sort of Esperanto experiment, but rather a shorthand expression for meta-tagging - a uniform way of cataloguing computer data so it can be searched more efficiently. It is a concept the Department has to conquer if its Curriculum Online and e-Learning credits initiatives are to succeed. Any provider wanting to contribute will have to talk taggish too - failure to do so could spell financial disaster. Fortunately, the civil servants are already sharing their arcane knowledge

www.govtalk.gov.ukinteroperabilityinteroperability.asp; www.dfes.gov.ukcurriculumonline;http:metadata.ngfl.gov.uktaggingtool