http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/developing_and_creatively_leveraging_hierarchical_metadata_and_taxonomy Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:51:57 GMT In content metadata and hierarchies, you will often find a goldmine of implicit and explicit data that you can leverage to <i>creatively</i> contextualize content. After a brief introduction on taxonomy and metadata, this article focuses on finding and utilizing such relationships in hierarchies. <p>I found this article interesting and well written, but I have to say I am disappointed that it does not go beyond simple hierarchies and traditional metadata. These are simple and useful tools, but metadata and classification can be taken much further than what is possible with the model outlined in the article.</p> <p>I wrote a paper on both the traditional methods as well as newer approaches that go much further, which can be found at <a href="http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tm-vs-thesauri.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tm-vs-thesauri&hellip;</a></p> <p>I would be interested to hear from IA practitioners why they still stick with the traditional methods.</p> http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/developing_and_creatively_leveraging_hierarchical_metadata_and_taxonomy#content_1998 http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/developing_and_creatively_leveraging_hierarchical_metadata_and_taxonomy#content_1998 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:51:57 GMT Lars Marius Garshol