From Sumo to Samurai: getting your taxonomies fighting fit: Part 1 [ABSTRACT]
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By Kate Simpson

Abstract

Hierarchical taxonomies seem to dominate our lives because they are supported by most of the tools we use daily, from Windows Explorer to content management systems. But are they the best way of organising and finding our digital documents? In the first part of a two part series, Kate Simpson demonstrates the many benefits of using facets.

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Hierarchical taxonomies seem to dominate our lives because they are supported by most of the tools we use daily, from Windows Explorer to content management systems. But are they the best way of organising and finding our digital documents? In the first part of a two part series, Kate Simpson demonstrates the many benefits of using facets.

What's inside

Hierarchical taxonomies and folder structures are not just used because that's what people know, but because the majority of tools we have to hand support them, and not facets. But where tools do support it, faceted classification is better

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