Explaining Taxonomies

March 21, 2012 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Explaining Taxonomies

Explaining a taxonomy as a “knowledge organization system,” our very own Margie Hlava explains how they are used to control the use of terms used in a subject field, as an indexing “vocabulary” to facilitate the storing and retrieving of items from a repository.

These Knowledge Organizations Systems (KOS) are usually specific to a knowledge domain or a topical area, a subject area, or an enterprise area. This interesting article was found on KM World titled, “What is a Taxonomy.” At its simplest, the term taxonomy is quite often used interchangeably with thesaurus. You can think of a thesaurus as a taxonomy with extras. Check out the rest of this informative article to learn more about the purest of a taxonomy.

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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.