The Accidental Taxonomist

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...

In the past (such as my 2021 blog post " Attributes in Taxonomies "), I have explained that “attributes” serve as filters to refin...

Taxonomies, with their origin in thesauri and library subject heading systems, have traditionally been associated with the tagging and retri...

When I had done consulting for ecommerce taxonomy clients years ago, and they would refer to the taxonomy facets for products as “attributes...

Coming from an editorial content background, I have always valued taxonomies for making content findable, but more recently I have come to a...

Controlled vocabulary metadata, including hierarchical taxonomies, has been supported in SharePoint since its 2010 version, and its use a...

Metadata and taxonomies are related. In The Accidental Taxonomist , 2 nd edition (pp. 15-18), I explain that most, but not all, taxonomies...

Since “taxonomies” are rather loosely defined, standards specifically for taxonomies do not exist, but there are standards that are rel...