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Category: Taxonomy creation

Classification Systems vs. Taxonomies

February 9, 2020 Heathers Admin

The design of modern taxonomies tends to involve more lumping, whereas the design of classification systems has involved more splitting

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Knowledge Modeling

March 29, 2019March 29, 2019 Heathers Admin

I recently presented a webinar on “knowledge modeling.” I usually have spoken or written only of creating controlled vocabularies, or more specifically taxonomies, rather than creating knowledge models. Now, I am beginning to think of knowledge models and knowledge modeling. A knowledge model is not just a fancy buzzword for…

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Taxonomy creationKnowledge models, Knowledge organization systems

Taxonomy Building Steps

February 28, 2019July 6, 2020 Heathers Admin

What are the steps to take when building a taxonomy? This question was posted not long ago to a discussion group of which I am member. I referred the person asking to view slides of one of my past presentations, “Everything You Need to Know to Start a Taxonomy from…

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Taxonomy Hierarchy Levels

July 30, 2018 Heathers Admin

A taxonomy comprises a hierarchy of concepts (terms), and those hierarchies can be considered to be in different levels. In actuality, levels are somewhat artificial, and its important not to think of levels too strictly. In some taxonomies the levels are even named (for example: Domain, Category, Subcategory, Topic), but…

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Hierarchical taxonomy, Taxonomy creationHierarchy levels

Engaging Others in Taxonomy Building

December 31, 2017February 4, 2018 Heather Hedden

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 the process. There are two primary reasons: getting input from those who will use the taxonomy, so that it will better suit their needs getting buy-in…

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Enterprise taxonomy, Taxonomy creation, Taxonomy termsStakeholder engagement

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

Taxonomy Term Specificity

April 23, 2017February 4, 2018 Heather Hedden

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 taxonomy customized for a certain implementation, which involves a unique set of content to be tagged/indexed and a certain set of users. Highly specific terms tend…

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Hierarchical taxonomy, Taxonomy creation, Taxonomy maintenance, Taxonomy terms

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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Taxonomies and Tables of Contents

October 6, 2015 Heather Hedden

A table of contents and a hierarchical taxonomy appear to be quite similar. In my last blog post I looked at taxonomies and indexes, and in the end concluded: “A taxonomy serves a purpose that is both, or something in-between, that of a table of contents and a back-of-the-book index.…

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