Tags

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Tags

Tags (tags)
These are the same keywords that are attached to blocks of content (for example, posts, photos, articles, etc.) in order to somehow identify and sort this content.

Example

I have a photograph on which I am depicted on the background of Lenin's Mausoleum.
I love that in my files always reigned order, and because all the pictures I have pushed to daddy. But here's the question: where do I shove this photo - in "Monuments of Culture" or "I and my friends"?
Here and there are shortcomings of the hierarchical structure with respect to a variety of content. And then I put the photo in the folder "Trip to Moscow", but I appropriate the tags "I" and "cultural monuments".
And then, if I need to see all the monuments imprinted on my photos, despite their location on the disk, it is enough for me to make a selection on the corresponding keyword.
And if the system is quite sophisticated, then I, for example, can still and exclude from it all the pictures with the tag "I".
In general, the essence is clear - the tags help us not to get lost in the mountains of content and always contain all information in an easily accessible and orderly form.


By the way, sometimes there are a lot of tags and it's quite difficult to understand them. For this purpose, such a counter was invented as a "tag cloud".
This is a representation of labels in the form of a cloud in which the most frequently used marks are written in a larger font and are centered in the middle, and less significant (less commonly used) are located on the periphery of the cloud.

Now very many services and sites use tags for the convenience of their users and increase usability of the site. Among them is the most popular hosting picture flikr. All images stored on it are accompanied by tags, which makes them easily accessible at the first call.
We, for example, can easily select terabytes of images from all those that depict the sky, just by searching for photos by the sky tag.
Livejournal.com also recently gave its users the opportunity to use tags in their posts, but, unfortunately, very few realized that This and how it should be used.