Convera Tools Highlight Efficient Taxonomy Development for E-Government
Taxonomies have been playing a little bit of a back seat lately in terms of buzz, but their importance to efficient and effective content deployments remains undiminished. Convera has announced how its Taxonomy Workbench kit is making it possible for E-Government initiatives to comply with Section 207 of the U.S. E-Government Act of 2002. Developing taxomies from scratch can be a nightmare, sometimes consuming huge multi-departmental committees that move slowly at best oftentimes to come up with meaningful and accepted content organization schemes. Tools like Taxonomy Workbench can accelerate this process significantly with importing, benchmarking and tuning capabilities to smooth this process. Word of warning: the tools can only amplify the efforts that are underway; if those efforts lack strong validation from taxonomy experts, there are still pitfalls that are likely to be encountered. Tools can enhance content craftsmanship, not replace it.