Taxonomies

Foreword
Heather Hedden

Introduction
Helen Lippell

Part 1 Getting Started

1 Business Buy-in and Scoping
Maura Moran

2 Choosing Taxonomy Software
Joyce van Aalten

Part 2 Building Taxonomies

3 Taxonomy Structuring and Scaling: A Standardised Approach
Jonathan Engel

4 The Diversity of Terms: Respecting Culture and Avoiding Bias
Bharat Dayal Sharma

5 Relationships, Hierarchies and Semantics
Bob Kasenchak

6 User Testing and Validation
Tom Alexander

7 Taxonomy and Vocabulary Interoperability
Yonah Levenson

8 Everything that Will Go Wrong in your Taxonomy Project
Ed Vald

Part 3 Applications

9 Enterprise Search
Michele Jenkins

10 Taxonomy and Digital Asset Management
Sara James and Jeremy Bright

11 Powering Structured Content with Taxonomies
Rahel Anne Bailie

12 Information Architecture and E-commerce
Margaret Hanley

Part 4 Business Adoption

13 Implementing Taxonomies and Metadata: Lessons from a Busy Newsroom
Annette Feldman

14 Taxonomy Governance
Cynthia Knowles

15 Taxonomy Maintenance
Helen Challinor

16 The Taxonomist's Role in a Development Team
Jo Kent

Appendix A: Metadata Template to Capture Taxonomy Term Diversity
Bharat Dayal Sharma

Appendix B: Semantics: Some Basic Ontological Principles
Bob Kasenchak

Appendix C: Metadata Model Template
Yonah Levenson

Glossary
Bob Kasenchak and Helen Lippell