Categories and labels on the internet

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Content needs to "Mark", as Yang is a tree, the Yangtze River is the first bridge in Wuhan. In the internet age, the face of the full screen waiting for the selection of information, if you can filter by attributes and content characteristics of information, is undoubtedly workers.

There are two ways to mark content at present, one is classification, the other is tagging.

Why did

mark the content

Because we're looking for things, everything we think is useful.

easy to identify

When a "content" appears in front of us, we first need to identify it. Whether or not you need to be focused, as long as we are actively or passively exposed to the content, we have to understand its outline. The simplest, say "Temple of Heaven" You know in Beijing, is a building; As soon as you talk about "Love" you know ... Well, that's the thing.

Easy to retrieve

Yes, because after that we have only two options: to have it (and the relevance of the purpose or interest), not it (or vice versa). This does not involve its extent. If you are looking for building content, then you will have "Yellow Crane Tower", do not "butterfly effect".

Of course, there are so many things in the world that we don't know; once the recognition fails, we subconsciously analyze the relevance of the entry to determine whether it is (to be retrieved) or not (skip the entry). Anyway, when you find the next entry, the thing you want to do is return to the original point: Identify.

Identification and retrieval are sometimes difficult to distinguish, but we always look for something (to retrieve) with a purpose (identified). If it's just boring to spend time online, then "purpose" is all you're interested in.

Marking Method

Definition from English Wikipedia.

Classification

Classification is a process of identifying, differentiating and rationalization thoughts or things. They are also often categorized (grouped) for a specific purpose.

The original blog page has its own sorting function; The article and category are one by one corresponding. Later, the classification was extended to allow the existence of subclasses, allowing an article to correspond to multiple classifications.

Label

tags are http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/32413.html "> network system, a block of information (Web sites, images, files, etc.) of a non-systematic keyword or terminology. A secondary description of this metadata (data describing the data) facilitates browsing or searching the original data (the described data) again. Tags are good for search engine optimization.

The label was born with a one-to-many form. Because it can also be used as a "classification", the boundaries between them are confusing and easy to create.

Classification and labelling links

It is generally accepted that labels enhance the link between information. Quite right, the classification itself organizes information, establishes a connection, and the label creates a connection from another perspective. Its appearance is of course the progress of information organization.

1, the way to establish a relationship is different

Classification is Top-down, that is, the first classification, then the content.

The label is from the bottom up, must have the content first, only then the label.

This determines that their dimensions are different. Classification is abstract, outline level, label is instantiation, keyword level.

2, description of different types of

Classification describes attributes, hence the name "categorized". Flowers are flowers, trees are trees.

The label describes the content feature, so it's called "tagging," a bit like "labeling."

How to use Mark 1, own

Categories are labels, and labels are not categories. However, because of the extension of the classification, the difference between them is becoming more and more inconspicuous. This is the case, WordPress backstage has a "classification and label swap" function.

Even so, they need to have a clear grasp of the content, and generalization and extraction capacity is the most basic ability of content producers. If you don't understand what you're writing, don't expect others to understand.

2, Reader

In general, it is the way to organize information. How to organize, look at you, with the definition does not matter. Like eating apples, more care about it is not delicious, how much money to sell, we do not care what it is what section, the growth cycle is how much.

Weakening the distinction between categories and labels, directly put together

The top-down nature of the classification provides a good overview of the reader. Popular point, is a wide range. Readers will certainly prefer the range from large to small, step-by-step positioning, which is more in line with reading logic.

The opposite of the label, better suited to the same content as the "reunion" keyword. For example, photography and tourism two categories mentioned in Xi ' an, then "Xi ' an" as a label, can be vertically integrated content. So, it's best to give a "related item (such as an article)". Do not be surprised that it is so "clever", can give the reader "." The smart thing is you, first of all, the classification has been aggregated once; this time, you put on a proper label.

Give relevant articles to guide readers

How to mark content

Concrete analysis of specific issues, to understand the links between them, it is easy to better organize content.

for classification

Even if it is big, we are not interested in the content. If the number of entries is not sufficient to support a category, it may be included in miscellaneous. This will not interrupt their own ideas, and will not let readers confused.

Classification gives White

Good classification should be the responsibility of each division, basically no intersection, otherwise how to call "categorized"?

Please hit the subject directly;

for labels

How to make a good label, online already have a lot of good ways, see resources.

Resources

First, how to lay a good label

1000 birds "The creation and organization of labels" http://blog.rexsong.com/?p=751

2000 Birds "Grain of the label" http://blog.rexsong.com/?p=10005

3 Anonymous "What kind of label is most valuable" http://www.360doc.com/content/07/0211/18/17158_363910.shtml

4 old fat "How to create an efficient labeling system for blogging" http://fis.io/build-efficiency-tags-system-for-blog.html

Ii. Other

1 Wikipedia label entry (English) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_ (metadata)

2000 birds "the relationship and presentation of labels" http://blog.rexsong.com/?p=756

3,000 birds "content, labeling and classification" http://blog.rexsong.com/?p=975

4 white Raven "Classification" and "label" (ii) of common functional design http://uicom.net/blog/?p=622

5 Sam "Classified dead, Long live Tag" (English) http://uicom.net/blog/?p=622

6 Rorelli "Classification is not a label, understand!" "(English) http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/01/tags-are-not-categories-got-it/

7 Rorelli "Classification comparison label--What's the difference?" Which one? "(English) http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/09/categories-versus-tags-whats-the-difference-and-which-one/

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