Designing the structure for a dynamic taxonomy is not that hard if you follow these tips: Tip 1: Use a Dynamic Taxonomy...This makes it very hard to maintain and setup several different taxonomies
This is where a taxonomy can make a huge difference: when a collection of documents is full-text searchable, the end-user can find synonyms and other relevant words as suggested by the taxonomy. A great example of the usefulness of a taxonomy for search can be found here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?
Here's what I think needs to be put in place: 1) Global taxonomy project
Taxonomy, metadata and enterprise search expert, Seth Earley, will be teaching the AIIM Information Organization and Access (IOA) Master class in Stamford, CT at the end of this month (February 28-March 2)
" With so many perceptions coloring a plethora of word choices it's no wonder that internal taxonomies are neglected as a pain point
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An information governance approach that creates the metadata infrastructure framework to encompass automated intelligent metadata generation, auto-classification, and the use of goal and mission aligned taxonomies is required
What about taxonomic structure, metadata strategies and security schemes?...This scenario aligns with recent AIIM research that many SharePoint implementations lack governance, taxonomy, metadata and security strategies
Text mining (both statistical and linguistic) and other exploratory search types such as faceted search (http://zylab.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/faceted-search-how-to-go-from-a-static-to-a-dynamic-taxonomy/) have contributed significant to the usability of search interfaces. 15 years ago, there was not enough electronic data to train the statistical algorithms and there was not enough coverage of languages to implement proper disambiguation of, for instance, pronouns, co-references and entity boundaries (http://zylab.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/how-to-find-more/). 3
No matter where I go in the world; No matter what type of company we are talking about, the fundamental issues discussed appear to be the same, “We do not have a consistent structure for our content nor do we have a strategy on how we will label and implement consistent taxonomic and metadata practices
By Carla Mulley, carlam@conceptsearching.com At first, I got a kick out of reading this article in CIO Magazine (Australia edition), “ Context needed in metadata and data retention debate “. First of all, I find it unique in regards that metadata has become a political...