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Category: Metadata

Taxonomies for Data

October 30, 2021October 30, 2021 Heathers Admin

Coming from an editorial content background, I have always valued taxonomies for making content findable, but more recently I have come to appreciate how taxonomies can also play a role in making data accessible and useful. Taxonomies have successfully aided people in finding and retrieving desired content since the 1990s…

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Taxonomies in SharePoint

August 29, 2017February 4, 2018 Heather Hedden

Controlled vocabulary metadata, including hierarchical taxonomies, has been supported in SharePoint since its 2010 version, and its use and features have been enhanced is succeeding versions of SharePoint. While it’s not technically difficult for users to create taxonomies and apply their terms to content items in SharePoint, developing a metadata/taxonomy…

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Faceted taxonomy, Metadata, Taxonomy creationSharePoint Term Store

Metadata and Taxonomies

July 17, 2017June 24, 2018 Heather Hedden

Metadata and taxonomies are related. In The Accidental Taxonomist, 2nd edition (pp. 15-18), I explain that most, but not all, taxonomies (not purely navigational taxonomies) serve to populate terms/values in metadata fields/elements; and some, but definitely not all, metadata fields are populated by terms/values from controlled vocabularies or, more specifically,…

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Faceted taxonomy, Metadata

Standards for Taxonomies

June 18, 2017July 11, 2020 Heather Hedden

Since “taxonomies” are rather loosely defined, standards specifically for taxonomies do not exist, but there are standards that are relevant to taxonomies. A taxonomy is a kind of controlled vocabulary, and there are standards for controlled vocabularies. There are also standards specifically for thesauri, a kind of controlled vocabulary with…

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Metadata, StandardsANSI/NISO Z39.19, ISO 25964, NISO, Taxonomy standards

Use Cases for Taxonomy Development

December 11, 2016July 11, 2020 Heather Hedden

Developing use cases in the initial design of a taxonomy is something I did not learn about until I went into consulting, but it is a useful approach to taxonomy and metadata design in any circumstance, regardless of the involvement of an external taxonomy consultant. The use case technique comes…

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Metadata, Taxonomy creation, Taxonomy testing, Taxonomy usesTaxonomy users

Taxonomy Design for Content Management Systems

May 4, 2016 Heather Hedden

A very common implementation for taxonomies is in content management systems (CMS). The content managed in this kind of software can be diverse: office application files, PDF documents, image files, audio files, video files, and, in the case of web content management systems, also HTML and any kind of file…

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