The items in the Cooper Hewitt’s collectionCollection (Museology) Museums are distinguished by their collection of unique objects that form the core of their activities for exhibitions, education, and research. have three levels of taxonomic grouping “Terms” and “Tags”. These provide different ways to group and discover items.

Tags

The structure of a TagTag (Museology) Tags are non-hierarchical keywords or terms assigned to Collection Objects which helps describe them and allows them to be found, processed automatically, or to create relationships between them. Tags are usually held within a finite, and Standard Vocabulary created by the Curatorial and Registrar department of the museum queryQuery (Computer Science) A query is a request for data or information from a database table or combination of tables, or an API that manages access to those tables is shown below:

{
  tag {
    id
    name
    summary
  }
}
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Tags can be accessed by argumentsArguments (Computer Science) Individual elements of information contained within a query, often structured as name / value pairs, e.g. title="chair". Searchable fieldsFields (Computer Science) The smallest container of information in a database. A field is named, e.g. "Title" or "Date" and each record contains a group of fields. are:

id
summary

Terms

{
  term {
    hierarchy
    id
    parent
    summary
    term
    thesaurus
  }
}
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Searchable and sortable fields for terms are:

id
summary
thesaurus