A taxonomy is a set of concepts organized into a hierarchical structure covering a topical domain. Whatever the search, it is important for that search to be comprehensive, with quality indexing against a standards-based taxonomy. This interesting information came to our attention from Open Text in their blogpost, “The wielding force of a taxonomy.”
Creating information order and structure is what a taxonomy is all about. Classifying documents and information against the taxonomy increases the likelihood of both document discovery and positive end-user transactions. A taxonomy can help make a large body of knowledge more understandable by narrowing its access point to a handful of concepts, from which more concepts can emerge in easy steps. It can help direct a user through the data to specific concepts, and it makes sense of the relationships between individual concepts.
A controlled vocabulary is needed to ensure that machine-assisted or fully automated indexing is comprehensive, regardless of what is indexed. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies and make their information findable.
Melody K. Smith
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