RE: Content Classifications / Taxonomies

I believe it would be interesting also, to determine the cost of
applying metadata to your content. This requires you to specify certain
requirements before entry, and asking yourself the question "What I am
going to do with it". People tend to make taxonomies to difficult to
handle, and once it is too difficult to manage a taxonomy people start
ignoring things like metadata. We notice the most, for us obvious
things, like creating a page structure is very difficult for users.

I personally would try to look at an option which tries to harvest the
larger amount of your data automatically (either by profiling or
ranking). Content entry is difficult enough for most users, hence that
they should consider metadata entry and classification of it. If this is
possible depends on your requirements, but I would seriously consider
thinking about making the often made mistake of "over architecture" in
your content taxonomy. Make data entry user friendly or they skip the
process and after a while you are left with a set of unusable content.

Micha Schopman
Project Manager

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