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No meaningful title · no summary · no owner · no status · no classification · no relationships
Applied terms will appear here
Describe · control · apply · connect
Taxonomy, Metadata, and Tagging
Metadata describes an item. Taxonomy provides controlled concepts and relationships. Tagging applies terms or values. Folksonomy reveals language contributed through user behavior.
Interactive model
Watch one asset become organized and retrievable.
Move from an ambiguous file to meaningful metadata, governed terms, reconciled language, and useful downstream behavior.
Descriptive
Title— awaiting valueSummary— awaiting valueAuthor— awaiting valueAudience— awaiting valueAdministrative / governance
Owner— awaiting valueStatus— awaiting valueVersion— awaiting valueEffective / review— awaiting valuePermissions— awaiting valueStructural / relational
Content type— awaiting valueRelated process— awaiting valueEquipment— awaiting valueParent collection— awaiting valueMetadata is information that describes or manages an asset.
Subject
●Equipment Conditionbroader concept
└─Vibrationnarrower concept
└─Post-maintenance Vibrationpreferred term
Governed concept → Subject field → applied tagTaxonomy supplies governed concepts and relationships. Tagging applies a term or value to the asset.
Folksonomy contributes the words people use. Alternate labels improve retrieval without silently becoming preferred taxonomy terms.
Metadata describes the asset. Taxonomy supplies consistent concepts. Tagging applies them. Folksonomy connects governed language to the words people actually use. Together, they make information easier to contribute, organize, relate, govern, and retrieve.
Once information is described and organized, can people actually put it in the right place, find it through browse or search, recognize the correct result, and use it?