For instance, JPEGs, PNGs, and GIFs are all images while Word, Pages, and RTF documents are all text documents. When answering “what item?” you’ll need to decide what items to group under a larger heading and which to separate out on their own.
Keep in mind that if you are grouping items you’ll want to use only the most generic groups.
When you aren’t using items inside specific programs or individual file formats, use the most general categories of items that you can.
Knowing what attributes you are tagging is the heart of the what, and the key to crafting a consistent tagging system. Basically, you want to identify what you think of when you think of a given type of item. You can do this by looking at items that you have tagged in the past to see trends in what kinds of tags you’re using or by brainstorming out a list of an item’s attributes (or for best results do both).
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