Taxonomy Creation And Management Software Overview

Heather Hedden, author of The Accidental Taxonomist has written an overview of the software tools available for developing taxonomies for FUMSI.com.  She covers six main categories:

• Software Not Designed for Creating Taxonomies
• Thesaurus Software
• Single-User Desktop Thesaurus Software
• Free and Open Source Software
• Other Software with Taxonomy Management Components

“Taxonomies are useful tools for bringing users to desired content, but tools are also needed to create and manage taxonomies. A simple controlled vocabulary, or a small hierarchical taxonomy that lacks non-preferred terms, could be created on paper (or word processor). A more typical larger taxonomy, or a more complex thesaurus with equivalence, hierarchical, and associative relationships, and perhaps also scope notes and term attributes, however, requires specialised database software for its creation and maintenance.” [Read More]

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