Labeling pick up the task of assigning meaningful (to the user) identifiers to raw datasets and making it easy to work with the data using these more abstract (but human-readable) identifiers. The Labeling class has many methods and one should look to the Labeling class documentation for the specifics.
Most methods contained in the Labeling class fall into one of a few categories, so we will examine the functionality one category at a time. The first functional category is simple housekeeping functions.