Taxonomies: 24 Caret or Fool’s Gold
July 25, 2008
I have been bedeviled by taxonomies in the last two weeks. Vendors want to demo their systems. Clients want to find out how to make their taxonomies improve search. Even an entrepreneur showed up, gave me money, and outlined his taxonomy scheme for world domination.
Fancy tools are not needed to create a useful taxonomy.
Yikes!
The purpose of this feature is to provide some basic places to seek taxonomy lists, services, and functions. The list is not complete, and I will add to it over time.
- Dow Jones Factiva. You can get librarians to give you a hand and license software too. Click here for traditional media’s taxonomy resource.
- Interse. A Microsoft SharePoint-centric system. Click here.
- SV Technologies, now part of Sydney Plus. Legal taxonomy. Click here
- Taxonomy Warehouse. This is the place to start. Click here to start your quest.
- WAND. Software, services, and term lists based on business units. Click here.
- Wordmap. The grandpappy of many whippersnappers’ word lists. Click here
In my April 2008 Beyond Search study, I provide in depth analyses of Access Innovations‘ system and the SchemaLogic taxonomy management systems. You can get information about the for fee profiles here.
This is not a complete list. If you wish to add companies, please use the comment form for this Web log.
Stephen Arnold, July 25, 2008
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