Information Highways

Order out of chaos: Creating and valuing taxonomies

With the advent of regulatory and governance directives and the burgeoning quantity and range of materials today’s enterprises are newly challenged to get a grip on the organization, management and retrieval of their critical corporate data and records. How can appropriate taxonomies, file plans and classification schemes overcome these challenges? How should records and document managers begin thinking about taxonomies? What is the relationship between taxonomy and metadata? Join Denise Bruno as she answers these questions and offers tips and tricks on the methodology and process behind the creation of taxonomies and comments on their value for enterprise document management.