The Accidental Taxonomist

As a taxonomist, I often write about creating taxonomies from scratch, but in practice, many organizations often obtain at least some taxo...

Although taxonomies have become increasingly common within enterprises and on websites, they are not always well understood. Taxonomies are ...

In a recent conversation based on a LinkedIn post, someone asked “Why choose a taxonomy over an ontology?” This is a good question, since th...

There are different types of controlled vocabularies for information and knowledge management. Usually, we think of the various kinds of con...

Taxonomies or sets of controlled vocabularies are typically implemented as values for  various metadata elements (also called metadata prope...