Tag management

Tag management is the ability to manage user-generated tags or folksonomy within a collaborative software. Tag management features and processes are put in place to encourage cross-user consistency, navigation efficiency and compliance with an existing taxonomy.

Tag management a priori

The tags that users will be able to use can be controlled up-hill 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)

Tag management a posteriori

Tags can be gardened down-hill by

• Renaming tags (e.g. typos)
• Deleting tags
• Moving tags to correct facets (e.g. an organization name)
• Merging tags (e.g. single and plural words)

Examples of tag management

• Tag management applied to blogging tools : Wordpress ^[1]
• Tag management applied to Content management systems : Microsoft SharePoint ^[2]
• Tag management applied to Enterprise bookmarking tools : Jumper 2.0, Knowledge Plaza

References

1. ^ "Wordpress tag management". Wordpress. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/tag-management/. Retrieved 2010-07-26. 
2. ^ "SharePoint 2010 metadata and taxonomy management". CMS Wire. http://www.cmswire.com/cms/document-management/overview-sharepoint-2010-metadata-and-taxonomy-management-006015.php. Retrieved 2010-07-26.