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Understanding Managed Metadata

This section explores an important concept in content classification and categorization. If you are into blogging and social networking, the concept of tags should not be new to you. Tagging content as a favorite and further categorizing it using relevant category tags is a task that a typical blogger or a social networking site user performs on a daily basis. In fact, the popularity of social networking and various blogging engines has popularized the concept of tags even more than the traditional approach of organizing content in hierarchical folders.

A typical blogging engine allows publishers and readers to apply various tags to blog posts to ease in classification and categorization of content. For example, ...