Tagging FAQ

Tagging FAQs: Frequent Questions about tagging

WHAT TAGGING SYSTEM DOES THIS SITE USE?

Tags on this site are non-hierarchical terms assigned to categorise and describe the content of articles.

Our tagging system is designed to facilitate discovery of related content across more than 15.000 entries and essays and to help monitor trends in legal discussion.

Specifically, this system looks for designated terms of interest, automatically tagging entries and essays containing these terms (or close variants and synonyms).

In addition to our standard list of target terms, our system allows for some manual tagging of articles by editors.

CAN THE RANGE OF TAGS USED ON THIS SITE BE EXPANDED OR REFINED?

Yes, we are continuously expanding and refining the automated tagging system used on this site.

Our tagging system readily accommodates the listing of new target terms, management of synonyms, and specification of canonical terms.

If you are interested in a term not currently in our list of all tags tracked on this website, let us know.

By using the option in our feedback form to suggest additional keywords you would like us to consider monitoring, you can help us tune our automated tagging system to the evolving interests of readers.

WHERE CAN I FIND OVERVIEWS OF TAGS USED ON THIS SITE?

Our site provides several overviews of tags:

  • keywords overview: tags related to key topics tracked by the Encyclopedia of Law
  • authors overview: tags specifying names of authors and editors contributing to articles
  • topic overview: tags designating topics

Each overview page includes descriptions, statistics, and links related to tags.

HOW MANY ARTICLES ARE RELATED TO A TAG?

Among the statistics provided by our site is the number of items related to a tag. You can see the total of items tagged.

Even if the overview runs over several pages, this total accounts for all items in the overview.

Each total number of tags displayed takes into account filters that have been applied to an overview.

HOW CAN I REVIEW ALL CONTENT RELATED TO A TAG?

When following any tag link, you will be presented with an overview of all articles related to your selected tag.

In addtion to a complete list of articles related to a tag each overview page also includes:

  • brief descriptions of tags
  • summaries of statistics
  • links to more information about the tag

HOW CAN I USE TAGS IN RIGHT COLUMN OF AN ARTICLE PAGE TO DISCOVER RELATED CONTENT?

Depending upon the content of each article, a range of tags are displayed in the right column of each entry page.

You can use these tags to find all related content:

  • Keyword tag links to overview of all content within a specified keyword
  • Entry type tags link to overviews of all articles of a specified type
  • Author tags link to overviews of all content by a specified author
  • Portal tags link to overviews of all content mentioning a specified area of law
  • country , State or Province tags link to overviews of all content referring to a specified country , state or province
  • Buzz tags links to overviews of all content related to a specified term

HOW CAN I EXPORT SETS OF CONTENT AND DATA RELATED TO TAG OVERVIEWS?

This site provides options for exporting content and metadata in structured formats, which we hope that you will find convenient.

You can use ‘CSV’ or ‘XML’ or ‘RSS’ links (provided near the bottom of overview pages) to download sets of tag descriptions and related metadata.

The Encyclopedia of Law offers a range of export options from tag overview pages:

  • our default feeds in CSV, XML, and RSS formats provide convenient ways to access ‘selected’ sets of content and data (typically limited to a number of items in a set)
  • in some cases we also provide options for ‘complete, paged’ feeds, designed for exporting larger content and data sets
  • these optional ‘complete, paged’ feeds can help you access large sets of content and data efficiently

A couple reminders:

  • whereas entries and essays content is subject to copyright unless otherwise specified, metadata derived from tags is freely available for re-use
  • we appreciate your acknowledging our site as data source and welcome your contacting us to let us know about further use of metadata sets

HOW DO ‘COMPLETE, PAGED’ FEEDS ON TAG OVERVIEW PAGES WORK?

In some cases, where datasets are large, we provide options for ‘complete, paged’ CSV, XML, and RSS feeds designed for efficiency of size and speed in downloads.

Paged feeds start with the query-string parameter page=0. Such feeds can then be incremented by adjustments of the query string, so that page=1 fetches the next set of data, page=2 fetches the next, etc.

Note that if you provide an invalid number in the query string when paging, and no such page exists in the feed, then the paged feed returns to the start of the feed (as if you had requested page=0).

With this paging arrangement, you can cycle through feeds of content and data in relatively small chunks, optimised for efficiency.

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