Lynda Moulton points to a problem that bedevils anyone who works to organize information through categorization - terminology changes.
"Taxonomies are never static, and require periodic review, even when the amount of content is small. Taxonomists need to keep pace with current use of terminology and target audience interests. New jargon creeps in although I prefer to use generic and terms broadly understood in the technology and business world."
She describes her method for gathering and defining terms related to enterprise search (one which involves validation through web searches), and for keeping this current with new discoveries and developments in the industry.
We see what can be done in the glossary for search and text retrieval that is attached to her posting.
Metadata, as one example, received this clear definition: "Explicitly defined labels for structuring content that describes any document or file regardless of the native format."
This posting is a very helpful worked example of an approach for developing and growing a controlled vocabulary or taxonomy.
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