Taxonomies and Indexes

Taxonomies and indexes are similar in that they both help guide people to find desired information on a selected topic. While they could be...

Taxonomies for Indexing Images

It’s becoming more common to index images with taxonomy terms, instead of just text documents or instead of just keyword-tagging of images....

Indexing vs. Thesaurus Creation

The activities of back-of-the-book indexing, document/digital asset indexing, and thesaurus/taxonomy creation all require similar skills, bu...

Tagging vs. Indexing

I have blogged before on the difference between tags and categories, but recently someone asked me about the difference between tagging and ...

Tags and Categories

What does a taxonomy comprise and how does it work? Professional taxonomists may speak of “terms,” “nodes,” or “labels,” whereas most other ...