Current Announcements
Taxonomy Strategies is based in Washington, DC. Founded by information scientists who met at Metacode Technologies, a start-up company that built the MetaTagger automated categorization solution acquired by Interwoven in 2001, Taxonomy Strategies has been involved in projects for government agencies including development of the content model for the official portal of the U.S. government usa.gov, and for international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund. A third area of leadership has been work on e-commerce merchandising taxonomies to enable cross-selling, up-selling and personalization by category rather than item.
Read Joseph Busch’s Foreword to the Second edition of The Accidental Taxonomist by Heather Hedden.
See some short videos that are part of a course on Information Architecture taught by Bob Boiko at the University of Washington:
For more information contact bob@metatorial.com.
Play Straits Knowledge podcast “Taxonomy Development Process Case Studies” [Streaming Video] with Joseph Busch (Taxonomy Strategies’ Founder) presenting case studies that illustrate different taxonomy development methods.
Play Podcast [MP3] in which Lisa Welchman (a leading expert on digital governance) and Joseph Busch define the terms “taxonomy” and “metadata”, and provide advice on advancing taxonomy efforts in your organization.
Read about Busch’s golden law of facets, named for Joseph Busch (Taxonomy Strategies’ Founder), described in Steve Papas’ article “The Faceted Navigation and Search Revolution” [PDF] originally published in KM World (April 2006)
Download Taxonomy Strategies 2017 holiday card. Appalachian Trail near Warren, New Hampshire. Photo by: Joseph Busch (July 25, 2017).
Read The Semantic Puzzle blog post “American Physical Society Taxonomy – Case Study” about Taxonomy Strategies’ work to develop a new faceted classification scheme.
Taxonomy Strategies Presentations
- Boolean Query Business Rules
Joseph Busch, Taxonomy Strategies at Text Analytics Forum in Washington, D.C. on November 7, 2018.
- Taxonomy Governance Best Practices
Joseph Busch, Taxonomy Strategies at Taxonomy Bootcamp in Washington, D.C. on November 5, 2018.
- 18th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop
Program. Proceedings. Organized by Joseph Busch (Taxonomy Strategies), Koraljka Golub (Linnaeus University), Margie Hlava (Access Innovations), Philipp Mayr (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences), Douglas Tudhope (University of South Wales), Marcia Zeng (Kent State University) at TPDL 2018 and DC-2018 in Porto on September 13, 2018.
- Categorization Ethics: Questions about Lying, Moral Truth, Privacy and Big Data
[PPT]. Paper. [DOC]. Joseph Busch, Taxonomy Strategies at at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Porto on September 11, 2018.
- Why Build Custom Categorizers Using Boolean Queries Instead of Machine Learning? Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Case Study
[PPT]. Paper. [DOC]. Joseph Busch and Vivian Bliss, Taxonomy Strategies at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Porto on September 11, 2018.
Archive of presentations from previous years.
