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...information technology in general and content management in particular. The assumption seems to be that, no matter the requirement or problem, XML is the answer.
When it comes to a specific question, such as, "How does XML support taxonomy development and usage?" the answers that come forth can be far-flung, disparate, and confusing. The waters get muddied further if you tune into all the announcements from the vendors, industry groups, and analysis who have opinions about such matters. What you might call a taxonomy, a vendor might call a thesaurus, or vice versa. What one vendor accomplishes automatically, the next one might accomplish with some manual intervention, and so on.
The very word "taxonomy" is a bit of a landmine. While information specialists and taxonomists have their own understanding of taxonomies as mechanisms for organizing content into logical groupings, some of the taxonomy and search vendors who support different "taxonomies" seem to be referring to taxonomies, keyword lists, and various kinds of thesauruses. Moreover, many of the vendor offerings are broader than taxonomy-building itself. Even a relatively specialized tool such as Autonomy combines content categorization with other core services such as content distribution and personalization. Verity combines its leading search engine, linguistic tools, and other features into a single product line, K2 Enterprise, while content management vendor Documentum includes taxonomy tools as part of an add-on to its core platform called Content Intelligence Services.
HOW ANALYSTS DEFINE IT
Documentum's focus on "content intelligence"...
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