Enterprise Taxonomies: A Business Professional s Guide to Taxonomies for Content Retrieval

A taxonomy specialist and a content developer combine their expertise to help organizations use taxonomies to improve the effectiveness of their search, content management, and other information-based applications. Pohs and McCarrick begin with a thorough introduction to taxonomy principles, then discuss user needs, metadata standards, and governance models, showing readers how taxonomies can be used to classify a variety of information types and to fulfill a range of organizational needs. They share techniques and tools for organizing online content and various data types including documents, HTML pages, databases, and Web sites. They offer real-world case studies of taxonomies in action, explore the notion of the folksonomy in organizations, and take a look at autocategorization technology and ontologies two important concepts that will help shape the future of Web-related applications including search and navigation. Enterprise Taxonomies is a must-read for Web designers, applications developers, content managers, information professionals, and business professionals with an interest in content retrieval techniques and strategies.