There are also different degrees of ignorance I think, summed up in the famous Rumsfeld quote - see [link] But I DO like the idea of building a taxonomy of non-existent things… sounds very much like Borges! you create a taxonomy of unsatisfied expectations. Thanks Matt for the reference. Thank you Edgar for your post! RSS2.0 MORE >>

On 21st May 2008 I presented to an audience of taxonomy professionals within the UK public sector. The last session of the day, I had 30 minutes to present on "Taxonomy within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS): Lessons learned from real-world deployments". The session generated quite a bit of note-taking and debate. MORE >>

Wheel Taxonomies. In my book I have a section about matrix taxonomies and the limitations on how much information they can contain without some clever design. The “verb wheel&# below based on Bloom’s Taxonomy of educational objectives, is one of those clever designs. Taxonomies vs Typologies. Taxonomy. MORE >>

Taxonomy_Bootcamp_Empirical_Approaches_full_slides.pdf.My session described a rigourous, transparent process based on evidence from users and content bases, testing against realistic scenarios, and consultation on gaps and accuracy, NOT opinion! Here’s the slide deck. MORE >>

Here is a poster design I’ve been working on for a while – it summarises the empirical, evidence based taxonomy development process we recommend. This is the link to an A4 pdf version. This is the link to an A3 pdf version. Let us know MORE >>