Tag management is the ability to manage user-generated tags (also known as categories, taxonomies or folksonomies) within

collaborative software Collaborative software or groupware is application software designed to help people working on a common task to attain their goals. One of the earliest definitions of groupware is "intentional group processes plus software to support them." Regar ...

. Tag management features and processes are put in place to encourage cross-user consistency, navigation efficiency and compliance with an existing

taxonomy image:Hierarchical clustering diagram.png, 280px, Generalized scheme of taxonomy Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization. Typically, there are two parts to it: the development of an underlying scheme o ...

Tag management a priori

The tags that users will be able to use can be controlled up-hill (before they have entered the data set) by *

Faceted classification A faceted classification is a classification scheme used in organizing knowledge into a systematic order. A faceted classification uses semantic categories, either general or subject-specific, that are combined to create the full 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 (after they have entered the data set) 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

Content management systems A content management system (CMS) is computer software used to manage the creation and modification of digital content (content management).''Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy''. Ann Rockley, Pamela Kostur, Steve Manning. New ...

WordPress WordPress (WP, or WordPress.org) is a web content management system. It was originally created as a tool to publish blogs but has evolved to support publishing other web content, including more traditional websites, electronic mailing list, ma ...

Microsoft SharePoint SharePoint is a collection of enterprise content management and knowledge management tools developed by Microsoft. Launched in 2001, it was initially bundled with Windows Server as Windows SharePoint Server, then renamed to Microsoft Office S ...

Drupal Drupal () is a free and open-source web content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Drupal provides an open-source back-end framework for at least 14% of the top 10,000 websites worldwide ...

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Enterprise bookmarking Enterprise bookmarking is a method for Web 2.0 users to tag, organize, store, and search Bookmark (digital), bookmarks of both web pages on the Internet and data resources stored in a distributed database or fileserver. This is done collectively an ...

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Jumper 2.0 ApexKB (formerly Jumper), is a discontinued free and open-source script for collaborative search engine, collaborative search and knowledge management. It is powered by a shared enterprise bookmarking engine that is a fork of KnowledgebasePublishe ...

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References

Knowledge management Folksonomy Taxonomy Collaborative software