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Content tagging in online systems has existed since at least the 1970s, with the earliest example I can think of being MEDLINE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MED
by holub008 4y ago
Content tagging in online systems has existed since at least the 1970s, with the earliest example I can think of being MEDLINE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEDLINE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEDLINE
- joshu 4y agometadata is not is tagging. keywords are not tagging.
- holub008 4y agoRight, MEDLINE's "tagging" system is MeSH, which is a large controlled vocabulary. MEDLINE does contain bibliographic data + journal keywords, but its real value add is MeSH, which is used for search, related publication identification, etc. in PubMed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Subject_Headings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Subject_Headings