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If your task, for example, is to classify independent musicians for a website and database, you may choose a taxonomy that organizes the artists by musical style and then create metadata to describe the members of the band, the year of inception, record label, discography, and geography.
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How to develop content classification requirements
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When developing a content classification strategy, it’s important that you know your needs, your application,
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Address governance as early as possible in the design cycle.
How will your content classification get revised and extended? How frequently? What person or team will be responsible for the maintenance of your metadata? How will you settle disputes? -
Every time you reorganize the website, the organization of content in your management application shifts.
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Melinda MillerIn content metadata and hierarchies, however, you will often find a goldmine of implicit and explicit data that you can leverage to creatively contextualize content. Following a brief introduction on taxonomy and metadata (what I call content classificati
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Specifically, taxonomy is a hierarchical structure for the classification or organization of data. Historically used by biologists to classify plants or animals according to a set of natural relationships, in content management and information architecture, we tend to leverage taxonomies as a tool for organizing content
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taxonomy as a means of organizing content and metadata as method of further describing it.
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2. Content Mapping
A more robust, albeit more complex, method of managing content is to maintain structures and metadata in the content management application that is independent of the delivery system’s organization (navigation).
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When developing your content classification strategies (for both content management and presentation), make a point of evaluating your hierarchical structures for relationships and valuable data hidden within them. Relationships between nodes of a hierarchy are complex, but often mirror the perception of your users.
By leveraging these relationships, you can broaden the scope of your queries. Broaden the scope of data presented to the users, and drive users toward tangential content.
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Andre MalheiroThe information architect will be expected to lead or contribute to development of the content classification requirements. And we don’t classify our content without reason.
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Specifically, taxonomy is a hierarchical structure for the classification or organization of data
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Historically used by biologists to classify plants or animals according to a set of natural relationships, in content management and information architecture, we tend to leverage taxonomies as a tool for organizing content
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While much metadata is flat or one-dimensional in nature (e.g., size or weight), some of it is hierarchical (e.g., taxonomies), making the definition and distinction between metadata and taxonomy vague and fuzzy.
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A more robust, albeit more complex, method of managing content is to maintain structures and metadata in the content management application that is independent of the delivery system’s organization (navigation).
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By some rule or algorithm, leveraging your content classification data, material gets “mapped” to the presentation framework
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There may be more than one way to organize content (think: content reuse). Given the same set of content, same set of classification criteria, but multiple algorithms, we can now build a delivery framework that allows for many methods of organization.
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You no longer need to reorganize your content management application to change the delivery application. Just the algorithms (mappings) change.
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Parts of the site may only be sparsely populated. It may not be readily obvious that you are creating gaps (with little or no content) in your site.
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it’s an easy and logical choice that allows you to manage security in the content management application at the department level, but it doesn’t accurately reflect the organization of your internet site.
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