Welcome to the glossary! Here you’ll find a comprehensive list of all the tagging terms that I use (and in some cases invented) on Tagamac.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
B
- browsing
- using tags to find related items
- see also: tag cloud, tag recipe, and tag tree
C
- collaborative
- tags are created, searched, and browsed by many people
- collaborative tagging is one of the more popular ways to tag online
- synonym: folksonomy
- cumulative
- tags are browsed/searched with AND searches; the more tags you have selected, the more precise your results
- example: searching for all items that are tagged with both “task” and “unfinished”
F
- flat
- tags have no explicit relationship
- antonym: hierarchical
- see also: tag cloud
H
- hierarchical
- tags have an explicit parent-child relationship
- tags are organized in a branching tree from general to specific
- antonym: flat
- see also: tag tree
P
- private
- tags are created, searched, and browsed by a single individual
- the most common type of tagging in desktop software
- public
- tags are created by a single person, but searched and browsed by multiple people
- public tagging is common on blogs; Tagamac’s tags are a public tagging system
S
- searching
- using tags to find specific targeted items
- also called “filtering”
- see also: saved searches
- SLS
- acronym for succinct, lowercase, singular
- more info: tagging best practices
T
- tag
- a word or short phrase that describes something
- a small piece of flexible metadata that can describe any attribute of the item it is attached to
- tagging
- attaching a tag to something
- maintaining pool of tags (renaming, organizing, adding)
- tag cloud
- a list of all available tags, often weighted
- flat, sometimes cumulative
- tag recipe
- a browser that focuses on cumulatively browsing tags
- tag recipes narrow available tags based on which tags occur on the same items as previously selected tags
- similar to finding a recipe by starting with a single ingredient and then adding related ingredients
- tag tree
- a hierarchical list of all tags
- tags have explicit parent-child relationships
W
- weighted
- tags that show their relative frequency, usually through color or size