Earley buys Wordmap

Wordmap Ltd, makers of the the enterprise taxonomy software, has been bought by Earley and Associates, consultants in content management and taxonomies.

See Tantalizing taxonomies, KMWorld (Feb 7, 2007)

Seth Earley, principal of the firm, explained, "An interesting aspect of the Wordmap suite that differentiates it from many products on the market is the integration with content tagging and search. After all is said and done, taxonomies are only useful if they are presented to the user in a meaningful way. Wordmap modules have the ability to do that without a lot of API level coding. The tagging module overcomes many limitations of content management tools in presenting and applying taxonomies for tagging. The navigation module is an easy way to add faceted search (also called guided navigation) without having to acquire additional faceted search tools. In these ways, Wordmap adds value to existing search and content management environments."