social tagging

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noun Computers.

the practice of generating electronic tags or keywords by users rather than specialists as a way to classify and describe online content:Social tagging can enhance students' access to online collections of art.

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Also called collaborative tagging .

Compare social bookmarking, folksonomy, tag cloud.

Origin of social tagging

First recorded in 2005–10

Words nearby social tagging

social sharing, social statics, social stratification, social structure, social studies, social tagging, social unit, Social War, social wasp, social welfare, social work