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A Well-Planned Taxonomy
Recently, I ran into a neighbor who is a VP at a high-tech firm working on speech recognition, so I asked if she was using taxonomies. “To me, Tom Brady is a topic and that’s enough. It’s too much...
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Book Review: Organising Knowledge by Patrick Lambe
Although the interest in and applications of taxonomies has grown in recent years, there are still not many books on the subject. Most of the information on taxonomies currently resides in online...
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5 Types of Taxonomies: From Lists to Ontologies
Taxonomy, strictly defined, is a hierarchical arrangement of terms, but the form of a taxonomy depends on the information problem at hand. After all, taxonomy is a method for organizing knowledge or...
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How to Teach Taxonomies
On several occasions Heather Hedden, one of our authors, gives full-day workshops on how to create taxonomies and other controlled vocabularies, and it’s interesting how different issues or problems...
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Search Patterns and Faceted Taxonomies
Peter Morville and Jeffrey Callendar have produced a beautiful manifesto calling to improve search called Search Patterns: Design for Discovery (Oreilly, 2010). It is an ode to making complex data...
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2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!....
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