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...

Taxonomies need to be custom-created for their purposes to be most effective. Basically, a taxonomy comprises the concepts or terms that ref...

Knowledge of what taxonomies are, what they are for, and how they are used is quite widespread, even if there are uncertainties and disagree...

Taxonomies are related to many fields of work, including knowledge management, information architecture, website design, website marketing a...

Generative AI and large language models (LLMs), the technology behind ChatGPT, have been topics of presentations, keynotes, and attendees’ c...

ChatGPT, generative AI, and large language models (LLMs) are hot topics of interest in fields of data, information, and knowledge management...

A and B are related; C and D are related. Taxonomies and thesauri are characterized by having hierarchical relationships linking their terms...

In planning a taxonomy, I have often said that it is important at the beginning to define the taxonomy’s scope, specifically the subject are...

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

I was recently asked if a website’s sitemap of company’s website could serve as the start of a taxonomy for an organization. The sitemap, af...