Tagging
Tagging is a term used in a number of contexts for different purposes, mostly referring to adding a of some form.
- In many computing and information processing contexts, tagging is the process of labelling a piece of data with metadata.
- Content on webpages is displayed as HTML which uses the construct of HTML tags
- For instance, in linguistics, a corpus may undergo part-of-speech tagging.
- It is also often used in relation to audio data compression, in which case it refers to adding ID3 tags or an equivalent to label a piece of music.
- The simplest form of graffiti is a simple signature known as a tag, and is consequently referred to as tagging.
- In sport it refers to passing control to another member of your team - for instance in professional wrestling.
- The labelling of an object or person with RFID (or similar technology) is also known as tagging.
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