The Accidental Taxonomist

As taxonomies become more common for information management and retrieval in all kinds of organizations and in various applications, the tas...

More and more organizations of various types and sizes are recognizing the benefits of information/content taxonomies, to make it easier to ...

“ Issues in Vocabulary Management ” is the latest Technical Report (TR-06-2017) published by the National InformationStandards Organiza...

One of the challenges in creating or editing taxonomies is determining how specific the terms should be. This is a key issue in making a ta...

A taxonomy has hierarchical relationships between all of its terms, so one of the quality control checks on a taxonomy is to ensure that the...

Recently I was asked to speak on a panel on taxonomy governance, so this gave me an opportunity to reflect more on the subject. "Metada...

I recently wrote an article on taxonomy management for the online magazine FreePint. By “taxonomy management” I mean taxonomy maintenance, g...