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Taxonomies Built for Enterprise Content Management
Earley & Associates helps build taxonomies specifically for content management. Often these taxonomies supply the controlled vocabularies used to populate content metadata fields, however their value can be realized in multiple ways.
One way is through dynamic presentation of associated content. For example a taxonomy built for a major electronics company allowed them to dynamically present and re-use related content such as product details, brochures, safety regulations, product features, graphics etc. through the application of taxonomy terms. This resulted in tremendous cost saving through less duplication of effort and a consistent presentation of content.
Compared to navigational website taxonomies
Depth of the hierarchy
Scope of content
Formality of terms
Integration of ISO taxonomies
Taxonomies and Content Management Systems
The features and limitations of your content management system (CMS) will determine key elements of how your taxonomy is constructed. For example some CMS some systems have very limited ability to handle deep multi level taxonomies, requiring a different approach to taxonomy building.
Our consultants can help you understand how to integrate taxonomy with a CMS such as Vignette, Interwoven, Documentum and SharePoint, and ensure that your taxonomy is built with content management best practices in mind.
Read our blog post on: Taxonomies and change: the nature of the beast
For more on Earley & Associates content management taxonomies contact Seth Earley.