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- Benefit 1: Facilitating Collaboration
- Benefit 2: Obtaining Descriptive Metadata
- Benefit 3: Enhancing Findability
- Benefit 4: Increasing Participation
- Benefit 5: Identifying Patterns
- Benefit 6: Augmenting Existing Classification Efforts
- Benefit 7: Sparking Innovation
- One More Thing: Align Your Efforts
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Benefit 6: Augmenting Existing Classification Efforts
If you already maintain a navigation system for your website or a taxonomy for your intranet, tagging can be a way to augment your existing systems. Tagging can complement your current classification practices by helping you to understand how users describe resources. Tags contributed by users can be a quick "first pass" at classification, before resources are added to an organizational taxonomy or metadata scheme. The tags then can be migrated into more formal classification schemes, such as a taxonomy or controlled vocabulary.