All posts tagged
taxonomy

Taxonomies: Connecting users to content

Added on 7 April 2021 Peter Bogaards

Good old taxo’s.

“Taxonomies may be thought of as hierarchies of categories to group and organize information to be found when browsing, or as a structured set of terms used to tag content so that it can be retrieved efficiently and accurately. Sometimes the same taxonomy may serve both purposes, and sometimes two different taxonomies are used, one for each purpose, for the same content or site. Taxonomies are not new, in fact there has been a lot written about them, including an informative series of six articles here in Boxes and Arrows by Grace Lau in 2015. An area that still needs to be better understood is exactly how taxonomies should be designed and implemented to be most effective.”

Heather Hedden ~ Boxes and Arrows ★

Taxonomy (the secret ingredient of great content) and how it is linked to business strategy

Added on 22 January 2019 Peter Bogaards

Taxos for business as well.

“While I haven’t shared all the strategic reasoning behind the website taxonomy, I hope this post explains the approach well enough to solicit feedback. Is it perfect? I don’t know! We will come to know only after the website is launched, feedback is collected from the target audience, and website traffic is tracked over a period of time. That’s when I am going to update this post.”

The Verditer ★

Beyond digital: Taxonomies and ecosystems

Added on 23 November 2016 Peter Bogaards

Taxo’s and eco’s, part of the new framing of the digital domain.

“As a strategist and information architect who employs the use of taxonomies, this metaphor is of particular interest. Yes, you can build something great with blue bricks, or yellow bricks, or red bricks, or green but when different fields and systems collide to create something more complex and colourful, we discover potential to create something more powerful and worthwhile through language.”

Matt Hollidge /matt-hollidge | @matthollidge ★ courtesy of @TUG

Web experience and the role of taxonomy

Added on 29 September 2015 Peter Bogaards

Taxos still rule the web world and beyond.

“Taxonomy is a complex word for a simple concept: organizing your content by topic, category, or audience. You’ve likely heard the word taxonomy many times and wondered why it’s important and how to go about creating one. Let’s examine the value of a proper taxonomy in web experience management.”

David Hillis a.k.a. /davidjhillis | @davidhillis ~ Buysiness2Community ★

Building the business case for taxonomy: Taxonomy of spices and pantries

Added on 1 September 2015 Peter Bogaards

Metadata in general and controlled vocabs, taxo’s and ontologies in particular is the essence of digital content.

“Although the word ‘taxonomy’ is often used interchangeably with tagging, building an enterprise taxonomy means more than tagging content. It’s essentially a knowledge organization system, and its purpose is to enable the user to browse, find, and discover content.”

(Grace G. Lau ~ Boxes and Arrows) ★

Taxonomy-driven content publishing

Added on 8 January 2014 Peter Bogaards
As long as we have content, we have metadata.

“Here’s something about taxonomies that might surprise you: they’re not just for librarians anymore. Taxonomies were once a niche concept – useful but complex structures tackled only by the most hearty of information managers in sprawling databases. The past few years have seen taxonomies demystified and ‘rebranded’ as powerful yet approachable tools for anyone with an interest in making content easier to find and use. One of the most popular applications of taxonomy to come out of this renaissance is taxonomy-driven publishing.”

(Stephanie Lemieux a.k.a. @stephlemieux and Michele Ann Jenkins a.k.a. ~ UIE)

Apples and oranges: Developing an enterprise taxonomy that works

Added on 16 May 2013 Peter Bogaards
So much to change in enterprises. How about metadata?

“The increasing need to dynamically deliver targeted content that is contextually relevant rests on three things – the technology to deliver it, the appropriate personalization and targeting strategies, and a robust enterprise taxonomy. Developing and managing your taxonomy is not a painless exercise, and it requires the help of an expert and the involvement and buy-in of key stakeholders, but based on our experiences, the benefits far outweigh the effort.”

(SiteWorx)

Taxonomy, Metadata, and Search

Added on 26 June 2012 Peter Bogaards
All the meta nodes in the conceptual layer explained.

Notes from Seth Earley’s Confab Workshop ~ “(…) your table of contents, which somewhat expresses the hierarchy, order, and relationships within your information, helps the reader understand at a glance the whole of the information. Even if the user doesn’t navigate his or her way through this sometimes maze-like TOC structure, not having the table of contents at all makes users uneasy. If you replace that table of contents with another sort of organization, something that doesn’t express the semantic relationships of the information components, your users may feel lost.”

(Tom Johnson ~ I’d Rather Be Writing)