The Importance of Taxonomies

January 16, 2013 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on The Importance of Taxonomies

The demand for knowledge management has broadened the use of taxonomies, as well as the opportunities for taxonomists to apply their skills.

These thoughts come from the Editor’s Summary of the most recent issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Our own Marjorie M.K. Hlava served as the Special Section Guest Editor, and many of Access Innovations’ customers also contributed articles.

Taxonomies have become an important resource in many areas of research, development, and business. This is no surprise to those of us in the “biz”, but is still exciting to witness. We know that true findability can be achieved only when you index against a solid, standards-based taxonomy.

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.