tag-post

name	tag-post
description	Add or update tags on a blog or newsletter post using the site's canonical tag taxonomy. Use when the user asks to tag a post, review tags, or add tags.

Tag post

Add or update tags on the specified post file. If no file is given, use the file currently open in VS Code (provided via IDE context). If no file is open or specified, ask which post to tag.

Read the post's front matter and content, then select 1-5 tags from the taxonomy below. Prefer using tags from this taxonomy, but if the post is about a different subject, ask whether to use a new tag. If you create a new tag, add it to this taxonomy. It is OK to use both a general and specific tag (e.g., digital history and computational history). It is OK to leave a post untagged if nothing fits well.

YAML format

Use non-indented list format:

tags:
- digital history
- American religious history

Tag taxonomy

Subject tags

Tag	Use for
American religious history	American religion as a historical subject: denominations, conversion, pluralism, demographics, evangelicalism, Catholicism, Mormonism, secularization
history of Christianity	Christianity broadly, including non-American or transatlantic contexts; distinct from American religious history
history of Judaism	Jewish history, distinct from antisemitism
antisemitism	History of antisemitism specifically
legal history	Nineteenth-century legal codes, civil procedure, Field Code, law broadly
slavery	History of slavery, abolition, mapping slavery data

Method/approach tags

Tag	Use for
digital history	Digital history methods, argumentation, the field's development; umbrella for computational approaches to the past
computational history	Subset of digital history emphasizing quantitative/computational methods specifically
data visualization	Charts, graphs, interactive visualizations of historical data
spatial history	Maps, GIS, geographic analysis, spatial approaches to history
text analysis	Computational text analysis: text reuse, NLP, corpus analysis
data	Working with historical datasets, data sources, data cleaning
R	R programming language, R packages, ggplot2, the R ecosystem
Go	Go programming language
Ruby	Ruby programming language
JavaScript	JavaScript, D3.js, web development with JS
programming	General programming topics, software development practices

Activity/context tags

Tag	Use for
teaching	Syllabi, course design, pedagogy, classroom practices
scholarly publishing	Posts about the publishing process, peer review, academic publishing
publication	Announcement of something the author published (article, book, preprint, dataset)
book reviews	Reviews of scholarly books
RRCHNM	Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media -- its people, projects, news
tools	Practical technology for scholars: plain text workflows, Markdown, Pandoc, Vim, Git, Make, etc.

Project tags

Tag	Use for
America's Public Bible	The America's Public Bible project
American Religious Ecologies	The American Religious Ecologies project and Census of Religious Bodies work
Chance of Salvation	The book The Chance of Salvation and the American Converts Database
Legal Modernism	The Legal Modernism project
Collecting These Times	The Collecting These Times project (pandemic Jewish experiences)
Pandemic Religion	The Pandemic Religion project
DataScribe	The DataScribe project

Judgment calls

• digital history vs tools: Post about using tech for historical research -> digital history. How-to about the tool itself -> tools. Can overlap.
• digital history vs computational history: Use both when a post is about specifically computational/quantitative methods within digital history. Use only digital history for broader DH topics.
• Language tags (R/Go/Ruby/JavaScript) can coexist with programming.
• data visualization vs spatial history: Maps and GIS -> spatial history. Charts and graphs -> data visualization. Can overlap.
• legal history vs Legal Modernism: Legal Modernism for posts about the specific project. legal history for general legal history. Can overlap.
• scholarly publishing vs publication: scholarly publishing = posts about the process. publication = announcing something the author published.
• American religious history vs history of Christianity: Use American religious history for US-focused. Use history of Christianity for broader/non-American contexts. Can overlap.
• Micro/untitled posts (timestamp slugs): Generally leave untagged unless content clearly fits a tag.

Output

Show the proposed tags with a brief rationale for each, then ask: "Want me to apply these tags?"