What are tags?

Wikipedia describes tags as follows:

A tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an internet bookmark, digital image, or computer file). This kind of metadata helps describes an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system. On a website where many users tag many items, this collection of tags becomes a folksonomy.

Tagging was popularized by websites associated with Web 2.0 and is an important feature of many Web 2.0 services. It is now also part of some desktop software.

Central Art Aboriginal Art Store uses tags for each artwork, artist, news item, art and culture page and every other page on the Central Art website. We do this so that you can search our site and see how different pages relate to one another. We use categories for structured links and tags for unstructured links.

Some examples of tag pages include:

• All pages that relate to the artist Colleen Wallace can be found at: http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/tags/colleen%20wallace
• All pages that relate to Pitjantjatjara can be found at: http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/tags/pitjantjatjara
• All artists, news items, artworks and culture pages relating to Utopia can be found at: http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/tags/utopia
• For pages relating to the Petyarre sisters you can search: http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/tags/petyarre

As you can see, tags are a very powerful way to move users around a website. We hope that you find this function useful.

Please contact us if you have any feedback.

(Photo: Petyarre tag search © 2008 Central Art)