Painting the Picture

March 17, 2015 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Painting the Picture

Anyone who has built a true, solid standards-based taxonomy knows you can go down that rabbit hole with ease never to be seen again. This isn’t to disparage taxonomies by any means, but a true taxonomy is complex and comprehensive. This interesting information came from Free Pint in their article, “From Taxonomy to Visualisation… the NewsEdge Way.”

Subject matter experts understand where I am coming from. They also would likely agree that taking a visual approach might make a taxonomy more approachable and less overwhelming. The early cave paintings depicted actual celestial events. Language has been symbolic from the beginning. This approach feeds that part of our brain that wants more than numbers and words. It feeds the dimensional parts of our vision and other senses all the while, providing valuable and usable data.

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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.