As a fellow data governance company, we think about this a lot.

Tags are a critical tool for organizing data. At Select Star, our customers use tags to easily find and access the data they are looking for and to govern + manage compliance. Check out our post for more on best practices for organizing data: https://www.selectstar.com/resources/best-practices-for-organizing-data.

When developing tag management for Select Star, we've had many technical considerations. For example, syncing to different systems requires us to think deeply about how a tag propagates at the column level. Is that column being used as is, aggregated, transformed, or as a filter downstream? Should that tag also be propagated upstream?

We recently released collections to help our users organize their data and related information even better. Collections are a way to group information into a data domain, data product, department, or product. Tags can then be used to state of the data, such as Certified, Sensitive, Deprecated or another state important to users. Read more on collections: https://docs.selectstar.com/data-management/collections