The document discusses how taxonomies for organizing information are similar to how tomato plants emerge and are guided. It recommends letting an organic taxonomy emerge through user tagging initially before the tags get too messy, then guiding the taxonomy by collecting tags into categories to improve structure and search results, similar to how tomato plants naturally emerge before being pruned and guided.
Taxonomies and Tomato Plants: They're more similar than you think
1. Gia Lyons (@gialyons) Strategic Consultant Jive Software Taxonomy Bootcamp 2009 Taxonomies and Tomato Plants (They’re more similar than you think) Flicker.com/spisharam
Filing cabinet mentality = works fine for B2C and for information that includes standard classifications that everyone understands, but not for E2EWhy? Nobody trusts search inside the enterprise, because it sucks.But, people only search when they know what they’re looking for. They BROWSE when they don’t. Thus, taxonomy is needed. And it better look remotely familiar, or people will think they landed on Mars.
Enterprise 2.0: bringing user interaction to the intranet – Enterprise search CAN work! Hallelujah!
Enterprise 2.0: bringing user interaction to the intranet
Enterprise 2.0: bringing user interaction to the intranet