What's 'Tagging' of Sounds.

Tagging a sound is to give it proper additional keywords. These keywords may describe the sound beyond its narrow context given by its title. The tags of all sounds form a wonderfull automatic index to find sounds by - the Library by Tags.

A title can only describe a sound to a certain extent, but tags can additionally describe what a sound is LIKE! It may describe in simple words where the sound takes place, what causes the sound, what's usually linked with the sound, its athmosphere, its feeling, its connotations.

For instance:
You are looking for a "crunchy" noise and enter that into the search. Without tagging you would not easily find the sound "Eating snacks", although it is just the perfect crunching noise. Luckily "eating snacks"-sound got tagged crunchy, crunching, breakfast, human, eating, cereals.... and more people can find it.

Another Example
Sound: Snoring
Tags: Air | breathing | Human | Night | sleeping | incommoding | steady

How do i tag sounds

Anybody who is logged in can tag any sound freely to a certain extend in order to help build a richly indexed and crosslinked library. Click on a sounds title to get to its detail page and tag away in the tagging field.

However you can only add tags to sounds but not remove them. So please be extra careful and follow the following tagging-guideline.

What's good tagging?

The proper form:

1. seperate tags with commas and a blank. "Tag, AnotherTag, YetAnotherTag, ..."
2. Tags may consist of several words if needed. "New York, 8 Bit, Arc de Triumph, ..."
3. put subjects with an uppercaseletter. "Church, Bells, Big-Ben"
4. put verbs and adjectives in lowercase. "mystic, chanting"
5. always put verbs in infinitive -ing form. "howling, popping, sleeping"
6. Be precise in your description when choosing a verb instead of an adjective or noun: for instance "sleeping"-sounds are different from "sleepy"-sounds.

Tag creatively but sensible!

1. Think about superior topics to the sound. Think associatively "around" the subject of the sound.
2. Is the tag a helpfull connotation? Or is it too far fetched?
3. In the end should this sound really be filed under this aspect?

Rule-of-Thumb: Ask yourself "does it make sense that..."

Example
While you're tagging the sound of snoring, you're thinking of entering "human" as a tag. Now imagine...
A user will click the tag "Human" to look up all sounds "Human". Does it make sense that he gets a sound of snoring in the result list? Yes, "Human" is a good tag for a snoring sound.
A user clicks the "Night"-tag, does it make sense that he gets the sound of snoring? Yes.
He clicks "Sleeping", does it make sense that he will get a snoring sound? Yes.
He clicks "Incommoding", does it make sense that he gets a snoring sound? Yes and no - only if it's a nasty snoring-sound.
"Nightmare", does it make sense that he gets the sound of snoring in the result-list? No, not really. This is going too far off.