diff --git a/ckanext/odsh/plugin.py b/ckanext/odsh/plugin.py
index 39bbd2e85bb7f3f71e9e84eb5f9cb6ae33e3f56c..e5ac0b02f97c10f0f72a24837a2cf200b05edb48 100644
--- a/ckanext/odsh/plugin.py
+++ b/ckanext/odsh/plugin.py
@@ -157,10 +157,6 @@ class OdshPlugin(plugins.SingletonPlugin, DefaultTranslation, DefaultDatasetForm
               ]
           })
 
-        for i, item in enumerate(schema['tag_string']):
-            if item == tag_string_convert:
-                schema['tag_string'][i] = validation.tag_string_convert
-
         schema['resources'].update({
             'url': [toolkit.get_converter('not_empty')],
             'format': [toolkit.get_converter('odsh_validate_format')],
diff --git a/ckanext/odsh/tests_wip/test_validation.py b/ckanext/odsh/tests_wip/test_validation.py
index 55136e2df2dd28ebfde6be6929aafd160a06e152..f2c4335393a58d4f49846a3df6c61da8eea46c99 100644
--- a/ckanext/odsh/tests_wip/test_validation.py
+++ b/ckanext/odsh/tests_wip/test_validation.py
@@ -42,17 +42,6 @@ def test_get_validators():
     assert get_validators()
 
 
-# @patch('toolkit.get_validator', side_effect=lambda a: None)
-def test_tag_string_convert():
-    # arrange
-    data = {'tag_string': 'tag1,tag2'}
-    # act
-    tag_string_convert('tag_string', data, {}, None)
-    # assert
-    assert data[('tags', 0, 'name')] == 'tag1'
-    assert data[('tags', 1, 'name')] == 'tag2'
-
-
 @patch('urllib.request.urlopen')
 @patch('pylons.config.get', side_effect='foo')
 @patch('csv.reader', side_effect=[[['uri', 'text', json.dumps({"geometry": 0})]]])
@@ -116,24 +105,6 @@ def test_tag_name_validator_valid():
     tag_name_validator('Regionalplan für den Planungsraum_I: (5.8 – Windenergie_an_Land)', None)
 
 
-def test_tag_length_validator_invalid():
-    min = int(toolkit.config.get('ckanext.odsh.min_tag_length',2))
-    max = int(toolkit.config.get('ckanext.odsh.max_tag_length',100))
-    if max_tag_length > 100:
-        max_tag_length = 100
-    length = round((min + max) / 2)
-    test_string = _create_test_string(length)
-    with pytest.raises(Exception):
-        tag_length_validator(test_string, None)
-
-
-def test_tag_length_validator_valid():
-    max = int(toolkit.config.get('ckanext.odsh.max_tag_length',100))
-    length = max + 1
-    test_string = _create_test_string(length)
-    tag_length_validator(test_string, None)
-
-
 def _create_test_string(length):
     base_string = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet."
     num_repetitions = (length // len(base_string)) + 1
diff --git a/ckanext/odsh/validation.py b/ckanext/odsh/validation.py
index 6c14d7a677da84065452518b20a4b71403469cc3..14151edb6910e859fd6f7294376f70af70805f55 100644
--- a/ckanext/odsh/validation.py
+++ b/ckanext/odsh/validation.py
@@ -270,28 +270,6 @@ def next_extra_index(data):
     return max(current_indexes) + 1 if current_indexes else 0
 
 
-def tag_string_convert(key, data, errors, context):
-    '''Takes a list of tags that is a comma-separated string (in data[key])
-    and parses tag names. These are added to the data dict, enumerated. They
-    are also validated.'''
-    if isinstance(data[key], str):
-        tags = [tag.strip()
-                for tag in data[key].split(',')
-                if tag.strip()]
-    else:
-        tags = data[key]
-
-    current_index = max([int(k[1]) for k in list(data.keys())
-                         if len(k) == 3 and k[0] == 'tags'] + [-1])
-
-    for num, tag in zip(count(current_index+1), tags):
-        data[('tags', num, 'name')] = tag
-
-    for tag in tags:
-        tag_length_validator(tag, context)
-        tag_name_validator(tag, context)
-
-
 def validate_relatedPackage(data):
     if data:
         try:
@@ -310,26 +288,6 @@ def validate_formats(data, errors):
     return data
 
 
-def tag_length_validator(value, context):
-    """Ensures that tag length is in the acceptable range.
-    """
-    min_tag_length = int(tk.config.get('ckanext.odsh.min_tag_length',2))
-    max_tag_length = int(tk.config.get('ckanext.odsh.max_tag_length',100))
-
-    if max_tag_length > 100:
-        max_tag_length = 100
-
-    if len(value) < min_tag_length:
-        raise toolkit.Invalid(
-            _('Tag "%s" length is less than minimum %s') % (value, min_tag_length)
-        )
-    if len(value) > max_tag_length:
-        raise toolkit.Invalid(
-            _('Tag "%s" length is more than maximum %i') % (value, max_tag_length)
-        )
-    return value
-
-
 def tag_name_validator(value, context):
     """Allow tag name to contain any characters but no newlines
     """
@@ -347,5 +305,4 @@ def get_validators():
 	      'validate_relatedPackage': validate_relatedPackage,
         'odsh_validate_format': validate_formats,
         'tag_name_validator': tag_name_validator,
-        'tag_length_validator': tag_length_validator,
     }