Taxonomies and Ontologies

So…you just bought a new LMS. The sales dude/dudette left days ago with promises still echoing in your head. Your Help Desk phone rings alomost immediately after GoLive, and some knucklehead …

(Editor’s Note: This is the fourth of five articles by Steve Foreman on learning management systems.) Is your existing LMS becoming an L-M-MESS? After you first installed your LMS, you expected that it might grow and change—and you were right. Since then, more content has been added, more users have become engaged, administrators have come and gone, and your organization’s needs have evolved.

Taxonomies Back to User Guide What are Taxonomies A taxonomy is a classification. When applied to courses, it's a versatile way to organize your content.  The C

The Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle is currently the most popular software solution which provides many modules for various teaching and learn…

Applying a well-planned taxonomy to your content can transform how you communicate with your customers, organize your information, and provide immense return on investment through improved content discovery, online marketing, customer self-service, and commerce. Taxonomy is essentially a controlled vocabulary that applies a clear structure to how all the content across your website is defined. It controls how you describe your content assets through categories, topics and metadata and their relationships to each other.

PoolParty uses Taxonomy Management Software to help practitioners become productive. Taxonomists create complex knowledge models for enterprises.

Synaptica KMS is award winning software that helps build and maintain taxonomies, thesauri, and other types of controlled vocabularies.