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This caters for the Long Tail of search terminology by deliberately introducing minority keywords and removes the restriction placed on the content of metadata by a Controlled Vocabulary .

Although a collaborative tagging system is likely to generate Meta Noise , i.e. surperfluous metadata, this adds to the usefulness of the metadata as it continues to cater to the 'thin end' of the Long Tail of system users.

The result of collaborative tagging is referred to as a collaborative vocabulary, or Collabulary

It differs from Social Bookmarking in that it relates to the tagging of content accessible to a large group from one place, rather than defining tags about content located elsewhere.


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