The Accidental Taxonomist

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...

The benefits to information users of having content tagged with a taxonomy are great. They include increased accuracy and comprehensiveness ...

Taxonomies are primarily for tagging digital content to make it more easily found when users search or browse on taxonomy concepts. Content ...

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

Knowledge graphs have recently emerged as an additional and growing use of taxonomies. A knowledge graph comprises data extracted and stored...

Taxonomies are primarily for tagging content for what is about so that precise content can easily be found by users, who browse or search ...

The primary purpose of taxonomies is to support consistent topical tagging (indexing) of content and full and accurate content retrieval b...