The Accidental Taxonomist

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

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...

Whether you are building a new taxonomy from scratch or redesigning one based on an existing taxonomy, it’s important to engage other people...

In my last blog post, I suggested that enterprise taxonomies need not follow the standards for controlled vocabularies and thesuari (ANSI/...

A book that I have been reading ( Structures for Organizing Knowledge: Exploring Taxonomies, Ontologies, and Other Schemas , by June Abbas...

It’s difficult enough for professionals to come to a consensus on the definition of “taxonomy.” As for “business taxonomy,” it’s even worse....