What Makes A Good Tag?
Have you ever thought about what makes a good tag? Since adding tags enhances the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Catalog search capabilities, we find that the best tags are the ones that add new information to a record that isn鈥檛 already available. If you can find the word in the record鈥檚 title or scope and content note, add it as a tag - but don鈥檛 stop there! You can further improve access to that record if you identify an object, person or action in a record that is not already in the description.
Photographs and Graphic Materials
In order to tag these records, take a good look at the image. What do you see? What鈥檚 happening in the image? Is there an overarching theme or feeling? Do you see any people? What kinds of people? What are they doing? What objects do you see?
Let鈥檚 take a look at a that can be enhanced with descriptive tags. In this first example,the title of this photograph is long and detailed: Adults Looking Over Bargain Merchandise Placed in the Street on the Sidewalks by Merchants in New Ulm, Minnesota, during their Annual Street Crazy Days Sale, the Town is a County Seat Trading Center of 13,000 in a Farming Area of South Central Minnesota, It was Founded in 1854 by a German Immigrant Land Company that encouraged its Kinsmen to Emigrate from Europe, the bulk of the Business District is on Minnesota Street which has been Revitalized with Community Effort, 7/1974
What tags can be found in the title or scope and content note?
- Adults
- Merchandise
- Street
- New Ulm
- Minnesota
- German
- Immigrant
- Business district
- Sidewalk
What tags would enhance this description even more?
- Shoppers
- Shirts
- Awning
- Glasses
- Bowtie
In this next example, the title of this photograph is:
What tags can be found in the title or scope and content note?
- Deck
- Gun Boat
- Boat
- Mendota
What tags would enhance this description even more?
- Crew
- Cannon
- Sailor
- Ropes
Now let鈥檚 look at a poster with the title,
What tags can be found in the title or scope and content note?
- American
- Liberty
- Bonds
- Loan
- United States Government
What tags would enhance this description even more?
- Statue of Liberty
- Immigrants
- Ship
- Children
- Boat
- World War I
Textual Records
We recommend that the focus for textual records is transcription. After the pages have been transcribed, however, you may also add tags to further identify the subject of the record. What is most helpful is tagging the names of key people, topics, events, or locations in the record, especially those not listed in the title or scope and content note of the record鈥檚 description.
Let鈥檚 look at this two page letter titled,
What tags can be found in the title or scope and content note?
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Jackie Robinson
- Letter
What tags would enhance this description even more?
- Civil Rights
- Vietnam War
- Baseball player
- Hubert Humphrey
- African Americans
- Riots
- Tennessee
- Cleveland
- Ohio
Where should you add these tags?
Tags can be added to individual pages or images.
Begin by clicking on Tags, then add your tag in the contribution box. When adding tags to individual pages, consider tags that identify concepts, topics or individuals found on that particular page. Tagging on individual pages will help researchers identify exactly where in the record information related to that tag is found.
Tags can also be added to the Catalog description. This contribution box is found towards the bottom of the description. The best tags to add here are tags that represent the entire record.