Patrick Lambe—two-term president of the Information and Knowledge Management Society and founder and principal consultant of Straits Knowledge—suggests in a recently published article, “Taxonomy and Search Patterns for Search and Discovery,” that if taxonomy and search are integrated, they become smarter and deliver an improved user experience.
Taxonomy and search are limited in what they can deliver alone. However, when they are leveraged together, they improve search recall and precision; get the users to their intended outcome faster by predicting what might be useful to them; ensure that users will see the most authoritative and helpful resources first; reduce search results down to a manageable number; and provide many other user benefits.
Click here to read the 10 search patterns that taxonomy and metadata can support, their benefits, dependencies, and potential applications with real-life examples.
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