Tags and Tagging
You can now search the database of resources by tag as well as by their description, but you might be wondering what a 'tag' is.
The 'official' (well as official as Wikipedia is) definition of a tag is "...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." But, put basically it's a way of lumping items together.
A resource in the database might be a PowerPoint of Milgram and could have loads of tags that associative it with different items that are similar. We might want to add the following tags: PowerPoint, Social_Psychology, Obedience, AS, OCR. This helps people when searching for resources that they want.
A few guides about tagging
1. A resource can have as many tags as it needs (it's limitless) - but don't go mad!
2. Tags should really be all one word - if it's a two word tag (eg. social psychology) put an underscore in (social_psychology).
3. If a similar tag exists then please try to write the tag the same (case, spelling etc.) - this will help with searching.
4. All registered users who are logged in can add tags to any resource - all tags are recorded so don't be mean - we'll know it's you ;)
This is a new addition to the site and I am still trying to work out all of the bugs so please do contact me if it all goes wrong.