Taxonomies and other knowledge organization systems for content and knowledge management

Hedden Information Management provides a range of consulting services and training in creating various kinds of knowledge organization systems for both published and internal/enterprise digital content:

  • Hierarchical taxonomies – for browsing topics tagged to content
  • Faceted taxonomies – for filtering or refining results by topical aspects
  • Thesauri – for consistent indexing and accurate retrieval of large numbers of documents
  • Metadata schema – for effective content management, organization, and retrieval
  • Ontologies – for modeling semantic relationships between defined classes and their entities
  • Book indexes – for indicating page numbers of topics and names in printed books

Coming up April 29, 2025: “Connecting Users to Content through Taxonomies” full-day workshop

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