Taxonomies in SharePoint

Controlled vocabulary metadata, including hierarchical taxonomies, has been supported in SharePoint since its 2010 version, and its use and ...

Metadata and Taxonomies

Metadata and taxonomies are related. In The Accidental Taxonomist , 2 nd edition (pp. 15-18), I explain that most, but not all, taxonomies ...

How Many Facets

Faceted taxonomies (taxonomies with attributes, dimensions, filters, etc. to limit search results based on the combination of selected crite...

Topics and Document Types in Taxonomies

It’s quite common in a faceted taxonomy to have a Document/Content Type facet (I’ll call DocType here), whose terms define what a content it...

E-Commerce Taxonomies

Happy Cyber-Monday! Coincidentally, this week, which is cyber-week for some retailers, I am giving a conference presentation, at Gilbane in ...

Enterprise Taxonomies vs. Traditional Taxonomies

A book that I have been reading ( Structures for Organizing Knowledge: Exploring Taxonomies, Ontologies, and Other Schemas , by June Abbas, ...

Faceted Search vs. Faceted Browse

If you have considered different kinds of taxonomies, you have undoubtedly come across the faceted type.  You can remember what a facet is b...

From Folders to Facets

A recent taxonomy project I completed involved creating a new taxonomy for a financial services client who was migrating its internal conten...