Taxonomy Strategies LLC is an information
management consultancy that
specializes in applying taxonomies,
metadata, automatic classification, and
other information retrieval technologies
to the needs of business.

See the new case study on the Oracle web taxonomy.

Download the CMSAdvisor Podcast "Taxonomy, Metadata, Cod Liver Oil & Guinness: Part 1" and "Part 2" in which Lisa Welchman (WelchmanPierpoint's Founding Partner) and Joseph Busch (Taxonomy Strategies' Founder) define the terms "taxonomy" and "metadata", and provide advice on advancing taxonomy efforts in your organization.

Thanks to those who have contributed to our periodic survey of business practices around team structure, processes, and infrastructure related to enterprise search, metadata, and taxonomy is in progress. A summary of results from the survey is available. Those results are presented, along with result from the first survey, in "How Does Everyone Else Do This?: Results from a survey of search, metadata, and taxonomy practices".

Speaking engagagements where Taxonomy Strategies staff have participated (or will participate) this year:

• "Tagging, User Interfaces, Taxonomies and the Semantic Web", a talk sponsored by the UNC School of Information and Library Science Metadata Research Center on February 18 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
• "Getting Started with Business Taxonomy Design", a workshop presented with Project Performance Corporation held at IA Summit 2008 on April 11 in Miami, Florida.
• "Teaching Taxonomy Methodology", a class talk sponsored by the Knowledge Management Distance Learning program at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) on July 26, 2008.
• "Data Governance Maturity: When the business depends on clear description of fuzzy objects", a presentation to San Francisco chapter of DAMA, September 10, 2008.
• "Strategy, Planning, Stakeholders and the Semantic Web" at Taxonomy Bootcamp on September 25, 2008 in San Jose, CA.
• "Co-Evolution of the Dublin Core and the Semantic Web", a presentation in the JPL Summer Series on Information Architecture on September 30, 2008.
  
• "Getting Started with User-Centered Taxonomy Design", a workshop held at the American Society for Information Science & Technology 2008 Annual Meeting held Saturday, October 25 in Columbus, Ohio.
• "Essentials Of Metadata And Taxonomy Strategies" at Henry Stewart LA / Digital Asset Management Symposium held on November 10-11, 2008 in Hollywood, California.
• "Enterprise Web Taxonomy Design Best Practices" at Enterprise Web Portals & Collaborative Technologies (EWPCT) part of the IT & Business Alignment Forum on November 13, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
• "Development of Custom Vocabularies and Subject Metadata to Deliver Personalized Content" at "Intelligent Content 2009" held on January 29-30, 2009 in Palm Springs, California.

Archive of previous announcements.

[Last updated 2008-11-17]