Taxonomies Should Not Be Postponed

June 14, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Taxonomies Should Not Be Postponed

WorthPoint is a known provider of valuation and associated services for art, antiques and collectibles. WorthPoint Forums provide access to expert options and debates regarding the world of collecting. Together, they are integrated with the company’s price guide, Worthopedia, which contains over 90 million items. This interesting topic was found on Auction Bytes in their article, “WorthPoint Launches Collector Forums.”

With that volume of content, a taxonomy is definitely in order, and WorthPoint plans to reintroduce its taxonomy on its new platforms. Properly indexing against a strong standards-based taxonomy increases the findability of data. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.