Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have provided numerous solutions in many applications. The original public application of question-answering, popularized by ChatGPT, has become ubiquitous and has changed the way people search for information on the web and more recently inside the enterprise as well. Instead of keyword…
Category: Taxonomy uses
Taxonomy Benefits Over an Ontology
In a recent conversation based on a LinkedIn post, someone asked “Why choose a taxonomy over an ontology?” This is a good question, since there has been a growing understanding that ontologies build upon taxonomies by adding more semantics, which enable additional benefits. I have presented at conferences on the…
Subject Headings vs. Taxonomies
Taxonomies have many similarities but also differences to subject heading schemes.
Taxonomies for Learning and Training Content
Corporate instructional or training content can be better managed and found when tagged with a taxonomy, especially a faceted taxonomy.
Taxonomies for Digital Asset Management (DAM)
Taxonomies enable better search, discovery, and findability of digital assets and should be included in a DAM system.
Taxonomies for Technical Documentation
Taxonomies are primarily for tagging content for what is about so that precise content can easily be found by users, who browse or search on the taxonomy terms. The types of content tagged and implementations of taxonomies are numerous. One growing area of taxonomy use is technical documentation. Technical documentation…
Taxonomies for Human Resources
I just attended the HR Technology Conference this week, my first time at an industry or functional specialty conference, so it was interesting to learn how taxonomies could be positioned within this specialized sector. I usually speak or write about taxonomies as useful in general knowledge and information management, with the only specialization discussed in ecommerce. Human resources…
Industry Uses for Taxonomies
It’s always interesting to hear about new and different uses of taxonomies. For example, recently I learned that a company would like a taxonomy in a way I had not heard before: to help their RFP team find content more efficiently to put together its responses to RFPs (request of…
Taxonomy Terms for Different End-Users
The names of taxonomy terms need to be understood by the taxonomy’s users, and all users need to share the same understanding of what the term means. Typically, a taxonomy as two fundamental sets of users: those who tag content with the taxonomy terms and those who retrieve content with…
Subject Searching: Why a Taxonomy, Thesaurus, or Controlled Vocabulary Still Helps in the Age of Search
Subjects, topics, index terms, keywords, controlled vocabulary, thesaurus, taxonomy. These all refer to an organized, precise way to find and retrieve desired information, where that information has been indexed to terms. Indexing content with subject terms can be manual or automated, but in either case the focus is on what…