Taxonomy Boot Camp London Conference

I was fortunate to attend and present the inaugural Taxonomy Boot Camp London conference earlier this month. After 11 successful years in ...

Taxonomy Courses

Note: Since this blog post was written, Simmons College discontinued its continuing education program. I am now offering the 5-week online w...

Taxonomy Trends and Future

What are the trends in taxonomies, and where is the field going? The future of taxonomies turned out to be a unifying theme of last week’s a...

Taxonomy: A Profession, Not an Industry

I am looking forward to attending and presenting at my 8th Taxonomy Boot Camp conference next week. What makes this conference special is t...

A Professional Association for Taxonomists

I recently attended the SLA annual conference , which this year was in Vancouver, BC, June 8 – 11. This year marked the 5 th anniversary ...

Taxonomy Governance

Recently I was asked to speak on a panel on taxonomy governance, so this gave me an opportunity to reflect more on the subject. "Metada...

Information Architecture and Taxonomies

While interest in “information architecture” by that name has declined in the past decade, interest in what information architecture involv...

Taxonomies and Text Analytics Compared

Last week (September 30 – October 1) I attended the Text Analytics World conference in Boston as an invited speaker.  This is the second ye...

Taxonomies and Content Management

Taxonomies are relevant to various applications, implementations, software products, disciplines, and industries, whereas taxonomy itself is...

Taxonomies for Multiple Kinds of Users

This week, I again attended the annual Taxonomy Boot Camp conference held in Washington, DC, the only conference dedicated to taxonomies. ...