Tags

Tags are descriptive word(s) that describe MicroContent Items. Most MicroContent Types contain a field to specify Tags. A MicroContent Item might have just one tag associated or a whole list of them.

It is possible to define Tags as a MicroContent Type themselves. A Tags MicroContent Type can consist of a tag-title, a tag-description, a tag-image and a tag-parent-title. This example structure is taken from the Expression Engine publishing environment. The example shows that there might be an explicit relation between tags (a hierarchy). This hierarchy is defined by the publisher of these tags Item. In this case one might better talk about keywords. in an explicit system the publisher of a MicroContent Item can only use keywords from the set provided to him.

There can also be an implicit relation between Tags. In that case the user can define tags himself and enter them in the appropriate MicroContent field. The way the user combines these words define an implicit hierarchy or even network between tags. This is also known as a foksonomy.