What are "Tags"?
Many of the items in the archive have one or more "tags" associated with them. These are keywords that the person entering the item has decided both describes the item and, more importantly, may describe other items in the collection. This tagging process is "organic" within our collection team and is constantly evolving as we discover new ways of associating items with each other. You can think of tagging as a way we build informal "Collections" within the archives. (See "What are Collections?" below.) You can see all of the tags we have used by clicking on "Browse Items" and then selecting the "Browse by Tag" option.
What are "Collections"?
Collections are curated groups of items that are associated with each other in some way. We have only begun to actively manage these collections (i.e., we're still figuring out which ones we want, etc.) and most of the collections are incomplete as they require a fair amount of work to manage and we're pretty overwhelmed just getting the archive built in the first place.