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Using Taxonomies to Organize Knowledge

Simple and short definition: “how to organize knowledge/information” A more formal definition is: Taxonomy is the science of classification according to a pre-determined system; the resulting catalogue used to provide a conceptual framework for discussion, analysis, or information retrieval (from the Marie Louise dissertation). Stephanie Barnes @MPuzzlePiece is our SME guest today. She is a KM Consultant from Toronto now in Berlin Stephanie is also an artist, she shares her work at here Stephanie is organizing chaos 🙂 at http://missingpuzzlepiececonsulting.ca/ Her book “Designing a Successful KM Strategy” is available at here Stephanie has been doing KM for more than 15 years, after spending the first 8 years of her career in accounting and business process analysis and ITSM consulting. She has written two books, “Aligning People, Process, and Technology in Knowledge Management,” published by Ark Group in 2011; and “Designing a Successful KM Strategy” co-authored with Nick Milton and published by Information Today Inc. in 2015. Stephanie sees taxonomy as a key component of any KM implementation and has worked with many of her clients to develop taxonomies that meet their needs and make their KM technology implementations more useful. PKMChat being about Personal Knowledge Management encompass Knowledge lifecycle in general. Our first chat was about learning, acquiring Knowledge. Our second is about sharing it. Week after weeks we will switch from one end of the lifecycle to another while exploring all the channels that could be used: social, formal, writing, videos. Feel free to suggest topics by tweeting to @pkmchat.

Curated links

Links:

Dissertation on KM and Taxonomies: “The Role of Taxonomies in Knowledge Management” http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/2498/dissertation.pdf?sequence=1

Academic article on KM and Taxonomies: “Building a Taxonomy for Understanding Knowledge Management” http://www.ejkm.com/issue/download.html?idArticle=129

Patrick Lambe’s book on Organising Knowledge http://www.organisingknowledge.com/

Information from Earley Information Science http://www.slideshare.net/Earley

Wikipedia: Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification of things or concepts, including the principles that underlie such classification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy_(general)

WordPress: a “taxonomy” is a grouping mechanism for some posts (or links or custom post types). https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies

“Taxonomy” in our Diigo curated group (will continue to be updated after the chat). https://groups.diigo.com/group/pkmchat/content/tag/taxonomy

Questions:

5 questions over 50 mins followed by free chat, questions are numbered You can take all freedom with questions and topic as long as convo goes on.

Intro: Did you use or become aware of a taxonomy recently, what did you think of it?

  • Q1: How do you define taxonomy?
  • Q2: What’s the difference among a taxonomy and tagging, ontologies, folksonomy
  • Q3: Do you think a taxonomy is useful or is tagging or a folksonomy better?
  • Q4: Do you have a process to review/update the taxonomy in your organization? Describe
  • Q5: Which extra benefits could you see of using taxonomies
  • NB: Questions are subject to change without notice.

After chat activity: Where would a taxonomy help you share and communicate

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