Foreword by Heather Hedden Introduction by Helen Lippell Part 1: Getting Started 1. Business Buy-in and Scoping
2. Choosing Taxonomy Software Part 2: Building Taxonomies 3. Taxonomy Structuring and Scaling: A Standardised Approach
4. The Diversity of Terms: Respecting Culture and Avoiding Bias
5. Relationships, Hierarchies and Semantics
6. User Testing and Validation
7. Taxonomy and Vocabulary Interoperability
8. Everything that Will Go Wrong in your Taxonomy Project Part 3: Applications 9. Enterprise Search
10. Taxonomy and Digital Asset Management
11. Powering Structured Content with Taxonomies
12. Information Architecture and E-commerce Part 4: Business Adoption 13. Implementing Taxonomies and Metadata: Lessons from a Busy Newsroom
14. Taxonomy Governance
15. Taxonomy Maintenance
16. The Taxonomist's Role in a Development Team Appendix A: Metadata Template to Capture Taxonomy Term Diversity Appendix B: Semantics: Some Basic Ontological Principles Appendix C: Metadata Model Template Glossary