Many turn to auto-classification systems to find some level of consistency and scalability, especially when (and this is very common) more than one indexer is tagging content. There seems to be a feeling that moving to auto-classification systems requires a sacrifice of rich and quality indexing.
We found this interesting topic on CMS Wire in their article, “Auto-Classification: Friend or Foe of Taxonomy Management?” In some situations, this fear made be very real and founded. Taxonomies and thesauri are the foundation of an auto-indexer and like building homes, a solid foundation is needed to provide comprehensive and dynamic findability.
This makes it very important to choose a professional to help you build dynamic, solid standards-based taxonomies. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies and associated rule bases for machine-assisted indexing.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in taxonomies, metadata, and semantic enrichment to make your content findable.
Thanks for the link to this article. Though short, it presents pros & cons of the two major approaches in a well balanced way.