Taxonomy and Metadata Design

A core part of a knowledge management or content management plan is an integrated taxonomy and metadata strategy. Content that is tagged with metadata, supported by a taxonomy, becomes more manageable, findable, discoverable, and sharable. Metadata is broader than a taxonomy, but a taxonomy is deeper than metadata alone.

Taxonomies and descriptive metadata should be designed in combination. Taxonomies and metadata also need to be designed to best represent the unique content set and its particular users. A licensed taxonomy from an external source is rarely appropriate. This one-day seminar provides the basics in best practices for designing and building a taxonomy and a broader descriptive metadata schema that supports findability and discoverability.

This seminar considers all implementation of metadata and taxonomies, whether for internal/enterprise knowledge management or for customer-facing Web content management, whether for manual or auto-tagging, and whether in a content management system, document management system, digital asset management system, SharePoint, or an internally developed database.

• Metadata and controlled vocabulary definitions, types, uses, and standards
• Tagging and categorizing
• Planning and design of metadata and taxonomy
• Developing terms, synonyms, and hierarchical relationships
• Taxonomy structural design: hierarchical and faceted
• Taxonomy implementations, displays, search integration, multilingual options, and interoperability
• Taxonomy management software