The Accidental Taxonomist

Often organizations determine that a suitable time to adopt a new taxonomy is in conjunction with adopting a new system for its implementati...

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 ...

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

There is increasing interest in organizations to “break down silos” of content and data. Silos may be different software applications, disti...

In designing a taxonomy for tagging and retrieving content in intranets or in an enterprise content management (ECM) system, there is a fund...

A very common implementation for taxonomies is in content management systems (CMS). The content managed in this kind of software can be d...