Tag management
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Tag management is the ability to manage user-generated tags (also known as categories, taxonomies or folksonomies) within collaborative software. Tag management features and processes are put in place to encourage cross-user consistency, navigation efficiency and compliance with an existing taxonomy.
The tags that users will be able to use can be controlled up-hill (before they have entered the data set) by
- Faceted classification, categorizing tags in facets (e.g. organization or place facet)
- Predefining tags, authority lists of tags can be created and suggested to users
- Restricting tag creation, allow users to create or not new tags other than predefined tags
- Mandatory facets, meaning a user must categorize each item with at least a tag from this facet
- Relating tags, meaning selecting a tag will also display the results of other tags related to it (e.g. synonyms or translations)