Taxonomies and Learning

By Melody Smith|December 5th, 2023|News|Comments Off

Learning can be ethereal and abstract. When it comes to employees, organizations need to remember the variations in learning levels of their workforces and reskill employees to keep up with changing technology and culture. Surprisingly enough, taxonomies can help. This interesting topic came to us from ATD Education in their article, “Putting Taxonomies to Work: Skills Tagging for Deep Capability Building and Experiential Learning.”

A taxonomy can help with skills classification and learning program design. In assessments featuring hard skills vs. human skills, it categorizes and classifies the appropriate responses to a situation.

A controlled vocabulary is needed to ensure that machine-assisted or fully automated indexing is comprehensive, regardless of what is to be indexed. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies to make information findable. Whether it’s an upgrade to an existing information system or the creation of one from scratch, Access Innovations works closely with its clients on custom thesauri and taxonomies.

Melody K. Smith

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About the Author: 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.

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Taxonomies and Learning