Tags can be added to any item, and are a useful way to quickly and easily identify and find specific content that you own, or that can be found within your organization or outside it. There are a number of approaches to using tags effectively, and thinking in advance about how you want to use tags to identify and discover your assets will help you decide what is best for you and your organization. Here are a few considerations for using tags.
Adding tags
Tags can be added when editing your item, and can be found in the Properties section.
Click to add a tag. Tags you’ve previously used will be displayed as you type, so you can choose from existing tags, and can establish a library of tags to choose from.
Creating a tag library
If you want to pre-define a collection of tags to choose from, one technique you can use is to add all the tags you want to any private item you own. That private item is used only as your tag storage. When you add or edit your items, all the tags will be available when you Add tags (see Adding tags above).
Search using tags
Each item in ArcGIS Online has fields, such as the item title, summary, description, access and use constraints, tags, and others. When you enter a string in Search, all of these fields are scanned for a match, including the tags. Close matches are also returned via stemming, which finds derivative and closely related words.
For example, searching for “snow removal” will find anything that matches from all item fields, organized by the default of relevance, or your choice of title, owner, rating, views, and date.
If you want to search for a specific tag, use the keyword tags: in your search string as shown below. For tags using multiple words include surrounding quotes.
All of the returned results will be tagged using “snow removal” or a close derivative, and other fields are not considered when searching for matches.
Considerations
Since an overall Search considers all fields, it’s not important to use tags that may already appear in your item title, summary, or description. Tags may be more effective if they are used to logically and uniquely identify items you may want to discover separately from other items.
These may be items belonging to departments (“Planning Department”), individual projects (“Memorial Hospital Construction”), themes (“habitat protection”), or anything else that might make for a useful unique search. A little thought about how you and other organization members may want to discover items will help come up with a list of useful tags.
Other recommendations:
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Adding tags
Tags can be added when editing your item, and can be found in the Properties section.
Click to add a tag. Tags you’ve previously used will be displayed as you type, so you can choose from existing tags, and can establish a library of tags to choose from.
Creating a tag library
If you want to pre-define a collection of tags to choose from, one technique you can use is to add all the tags you want to any private item you own. That private item is used only as your tag storage. When you add or edit your items, all the tags will be available when you Add tags (see Adding tags above).
Search using tags
Each item in ArcGIS Online has fields, such as the item title, summary, description, access and use constraints, tags, and others. When you enter a string in Search, all of these fields are scanned for a match, including the tags. Close matches are also returned via stemming, which finds derivative and closely related words.
For example, searching for “snow removal” will find anything that matches from all item fields, organized by the default of relevance, or your choice of title, owner, rating, views, and date.
If you want to search for a specific tag, use the keyword tags: in your search string as shown below. For tags using multiple words include surrounding quotes.
All of the returned results will be tagged using “snow removal” or a close derivative, and other fields are not considered when searching for matches.
Considerations
Since an overall Search considers all fields, it’s not important to use tags that may already appear in your item title, summary, or description. Tags may be more effective if they are used to logically and uniquely identify items you may want to discover separately from other items.
These may be items belonging to departments (“Planning Department”), individual projects (“Memorial Hospital Construction”), themes (“habitat protection”), or anything else that might make for a useful unique search. A little thought about how you and other organization members may want to discover items will help come up with a list of useful tags.
Other recommendations:
- Use fewer tags, rather than more.
- Clean up spelling errors and unwanted tags as you find them.
- Specific tags are more useful than generic ones.
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