Tagging

In order to deal with cohorts of students and report on network activity, a taxonomy needs to be created that will group people and events. We are calling the taxonomy tagging. Tags will be used in the following ways:

• Search for members filtered by tags.
• Search for events filtered by tags.
• Associate events to members. For instance, an event tagged with "Class of 2016" and "Carver High School" will be for students tagged with the same tags. Now reporting can be done on the percentage of those students who actually participated in the event.
• Report on event participation filtered by tags.
• Report on member participation filtered by tags.

There will be tag categories to group the tags. Examples of tag categories are:

• Graduating Class - "Class of 2016", "Class of 2017" (A final decision needs to be made concerning whether to make Graduating Class a numeric attribute on the member.)
• Affiliation - "Gear-Up", "Academy of Health Sciences", "Academy of Urban Educators"
• School - "A. H. Parker", "G.W. Carver"
• Organization - "EAB", "Regions Bank"
• Talents - "Arts", "Math", "Technology", "Sports"
• Neighborhood - "Smithfield", "Roebuck"
• Extracurricular Activities - "Jazz Band", "Football"

Tag categories and tags need to be able to be disabled so that old taxonomies can be moved out of the way yet still be available for reporting if desired.

When filtering, tags within a category will be ORed and tags between categories will be ANDed in the initial version. Example: Talents IN ("Arts", "Sports") AND School = "G.W. Carver"

The tag categories need a description to be displayed on forms where they are entered.