Create a Tag Structure

If you have not previously created any tag structures, then the tag management page contains a single form called Create new Tag Structure. To create a tag structure fill in the form's fields as follows and click on Create:

Scheme

A tag structure is uniquely identified by its scheme, a specially formatted identifier string that must conform to the entity portion of RFC 4151. You can create a valid scheme by conforming to the following format:

structure-name.domain-name,yyyy

where:

structure-name: is a name for the structure. The name must not contain any spaces or special characters other than '-' and '.' (the same rules apply as for domain names).
domain-name: is a domain name that is or has been owned by your organization.
yyyy: is one of the years in which domain-name was owned by your organization.

You might, for example, create tag structures with the following scheme names:

places.mycompany.com,2011
sports.mycompany.com,2011
genres.mycompany.com,2011

Name

The tag structure's display name. This is the name that users will normally see, for example: Places, Sports or Genres.

Description

A description of the tag structure and its purpose. The description for genres.mycompany.com,2011, for example, might be:

Book, film and theatre (but not music) genres

As long as the scheme you specified is syntactically correct and does not already exist, the new scheme is created, and appears in a Tagging Structures section (see Tagging Structures) below the Create new Tag Structure form.

You can (in theory) also use this form to create tag structures based on tag collections maintained by other organizations. In this case you would enter the other organization's scheme name in the scheme field. You could then convert their tags to the tag syndication format described in classification-tags and import it. Since this tag structure is maintained by a different organization, you would then need to ensure that your users do not modify the imported structure. In practice, there are currently very few standard tag collections available, so this possibility is not likely to be of much interest.