Joseph A. Busch is the "For a large enterprise to share information across Founder and a Principal of diverse product lines and functions, a common

Taxonomy Strategies, an language or taxonomy is required to classify the information management information. The best way to develop the common consulting group, and a taxonomy is to look at the hierarchies currently in founding Partner of Semantic use." Taxonomy Strategies is an Staffing, a semantic web - David Lamar Smith, Halliburton Global information management recruiting firm. He guides Technical Services Chief consultancy that specializes in large global companies, government agencies, international organizations applying taxonomies, metadata, and not-for-profits such as Oracle, the U.S. automatic classification, and Environmental Protection Agency, the "Organizing data to inform mission judgments by other information retrieval International Monetary Fund and Harvard providing associated content helps us examine technologies to the needs of Business School Publications in developing problems in order to mitigate risk and become a metadata frameworks and taxonomy strategies. proactive, learning enterprise. This allows each business. mission to build on the missions that have come Before founding Taxonomy Strategies, Joseph before. This is the foundation architecture for a true Busch held strategic positions within Interwoven, NASA knowledge base" Metacode Technologies, the Getty Information [email protected] Institute and PriceWaterhouse. He is a Past - Jayne Dutra, Enterprise Information Architect, President of the American Society for Information NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory +1-415-377-7912 Science and Technology (www.asis.org), and has 5253 Nebraska Ave NW been an appointee to the Board of Directors of Washington, DC 20015 USA the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (dublincore.org). "Before [the taxonomy project], the location of digital images, slides, CDs, etc. was stored in my +1-415-377-7912 neural network. Now those resources reside in the [email protected] digital asset management system. They are all "Metadata is what instantiates digital, and they are all tagged. Access is now open. the existence of things." Taxonomy Strategies associates include: We can meet requests for specific assets quickly Vivian Bliss, Lisa Chan, Susan Golden, Branka and accurately." - Joseph A Busch, Taxonomy Kosovac, Beth Maser, Chiara Ogan, and Jan Sykes. Strategies Founder and - Susan Levings, UCSF School of Pharmacy, When are needed, staffing resources Associate Dean for Planning and Principal Taxonomy Strategies has relationships with many Communications service and technology providers.

© 2019 Taxonomy Strategies LLC. All rights reserved. What is a Taxonomy? A taxonomy can provide the overall scheme for organizing content to solve a business problem such as improving search, browsing for content on an enterprise-wide portal, enabling business users to syndicate content, and otherwise providing the basis for content re-use. What We Do Evaluate Plan Build

Taxonomies represent a predefined organizational . Business cases . ROI modeling . Workflows structure that can cover a range of subjects from Content . . . general industries or fields of study to the relevant Handling Exploratory user Governance Procedures & training words and terms unique to the business. They are Applications research materials for tagging & usually arranged hierarchically, reflect general to more re-tagging content specific relationships and show correlations between . Existing . Schema . XML schemas & XML subject areas. metadata specifications formats for data Taxonomies also help to provide an optimized site map Metadata systems . Software product exchange or information architecture that allows users to Standards & . Application of requirements . RDF, linked data, intuitively navigate to content, or directs users to the Systems metadata knowledge graphs, content the site owner wants them to see. standards triple stores & semantic web XML Schema . . . Like traditional data modeling, taxonomies can be de- Processes & Tool, template, & Business rules composed into discrete facets. These facets represent tools for process . Auto-categorization an extensible set of attributes for labeling content and Taxonomy & maintaining requirements for training sets Text Analytics content taxonomy content components so that they can be uniquely . Benchmarking data Tools organization development, identified. Such unique identifiers provide a structured sets data record or metadata that allows unstructured schemes maintenance & . API specifications content collections to be processed like a database. integration . . . XML schemas are data models expressed in XML. They Existing content Taxonomy testing Taxonomies & provide a means for defining and implementing a organization & evaluation controlled vocabularies Taxonomies & consistent structure or syntax, and semantics for XML schemes methods . Taxonomy testing Controlled documents that allow machines to carry out rules . Application of . Procedures for Vocabularies . Communications & made by people. A faceted taxonomy provides the industry ongoing taxonomy training packages to names of metadata elements and a consistent set of standards maintenance deploy taxonomies attribute values or vocabularies for filling the elements in an XML schema. Infoware The taxonomies, training sets, and other information resources needed by the tagging software are the infoware for automatic classification of content according to a taxonomy.

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