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Category: Hierarchical taxonomy

One or More Taxonomies

September 23, 2014 Heather Hedden

In the various definitions of taxonomy, one aspect of the definition that is often missing is what constitutes a single taxonomy (or thesaurus) versus multiple related taxonomies (or thesauri). If you hire a taxonomy consultant, they won’t tell you because they will defer to their client’s terminology. If you are…

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Taxonomies vs. Thesauri

January 28, 2014 Heather Hedden

Two taxonomy consulting projects I worked on last year seemed to lend themselves more to the development of a thesaurus than a set of hierarchical taxonomies. But clients usually ask for a taxonomy and not a thesaurus.  Perhaps we need to ask what is in mind with the notion of…

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Taxonomies vs. Classification

April 2, 2013July 6, 2020 Heather Hedden

A question had come up in one of my classes on how classification differs from taxonomies/thesauri. As part of an assignment to find thesauri on the web a student sought to find “how the Federal Government classifies its publications and was expecting to find a very elaborate Thesaurus … and…

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From Folders to Facets

December 29, 2011 Heather Hedden

A recent taxonomy project I completed involved creating a new taxonomy for a financial services client who was migrating its internal content from shared drive folders to a SharePoint-based intranet, which also included automated indexing and a search engine (FAST). The new taxonomy will help support the search functionality, and…

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Faceted taxonomy, Hierarchical taxonomyFolders, SharePoint

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