Taxonomies in operation, design, and meta-design
C. Niederce, Claudio Muscogiuri, Matthias Hemmje · 2005
Taxonomies are a well-established instrument fororganizing and accessing resources in Information,Content and Knowledge Management (ICKM) systems.Furthermore, they contribute to a common understandingand an improved communication in the user community byfostering the development and usage of a sharedvocabulary.In addition to these operational usage scenarios, weargue in this paper that a taxonomy is also a valuablemedium in system design. We present a meta-designframework for systematically supporting the user in thesetup, customization and evolution of Web-based ICKMsystem instances, which is based on a model-based domainconstruction approach. Taxonomies are exploited both asthe fundamental basis for the construction process itselfand as the principal support for context-driven access the common metamodel in this framework implementingthe ontological commitment underlying the completeframework.These manifold forms of taxonomy exploitation aresupported by a flexible taxonomy component that enablesmultiple classifications of arbitrary resources, effectivetaxonomy management, and context-adaptive taxonomyreduction in our ICKM meta-design framework.