According to Wikipedia, a tag is "a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (e.g. a picture, a geographic map, a blog entry, or video clip), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification and search of information." Tags created by Internet users form a folksonomy.
Tagging is used on Flickr, Blogs such as mine, and Del.icio.us. The latter is a social bookmarking site that allows users to tag web sites in ways they will remember. For example, if I visit the HCPL site for book reviews, then I can label it with the tag of "book reviews." Also, I can see the most popular ways other users have tagged HCPL such as Library, Catalog, etc. iHCPL has numerous sites tagged using its Del.icio.us account. I opened my own Del.icio.us account and have been able to bookmark sites on one computer and be able to open my bookmarks on another computer. This is helps a lot with my library school homework as well as reference desk duty.
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