Collaborative+Book+Tagging

=Tagging the Collaborative Book(s)=

There are no hard-and-fast rules for tagging. Here are some individual perspectives.

1250849286] I've tagged most of the chapter pages in the wiki to get things started. The principles I've tried to follow at this stage are:
 * 1) Err on the side of too many tags rather than too few. If necessary, tags can be merged later.
 * 2) In general, assume that different terms in different chapters mean at least subtly different things, rather than being mere terminological inconsistencies.
 * 3) Use plural forms for concrete nouns and singular forms for abstract nouns.
 * 4) If two or more variants of a tag suggest themselves, either use them all or use the one that is in the most use on other pages.
 * 5) Use multi-word tags without shame! I regard tagging systems that prohibit multi-word tags (such as delicious and CiteULike) as primitive (though I hasten to add that I love both of those services) and insufficiently focused on user-friendliness, and think that human-readable chunks like //communities of practice// make excellent tags.

I'm not convinced that those have all been sound decisions: fewer clusters have emerged than I expected, probably because of my reluctance to impose a pre-existing schema on a diverse range of topics. I'm hoping others can build on my initial tagging, adding tags as appropriate that they've seen on other pages where commonalities obviously exist.