As time goes by, a company enters new fields and exits others, introduces new products, and changes the focus of existing offerings. All these changes have an impact on the corporate taxonomy - some categories become redundant, others need to be created, and yet others start to serve a different purpose than originally intended. This is taxonomy lifecycle management: The ability to continuously adapt an organization's tree of topics to the changing business environment.

The Taxonomy Manager: Simple and Powerful Taxonomy Editing

GammaSite's Taxonomy Manager is an application that allows information managers to edit and manage taxonomies throughout their lifecycle:

• A Category Suggesting Tool can suggest how to split a large category into subcategories, or perform initial clustering when there is no taxonomy structure. This dramatically reduces time spent by information experts on analyzing changes required in a taxonomy.

• Adding or deleting categories is as easy as working with folders in Windows File Explorer. Categories can be moved to a different position in the tree using drag-and-drop.

• It is simple to update training documents, in accordance with changes to the subject tree. The Taxonomy Manager allows information experts to quickly add examples by dragging-and-dropping a URL or file into a category. It also displays detailed information on the quality of each training document, making it easy to zone in on problematic documents and remove them.

• Full control of categorization parameters. The Taxonomy Manager allows information experts to fine-tune global categorization thresholds, and set specific threshold for problematic categories.

• Category links. The Taxonomy Manager allows creation of 'contain' or 'see also' links between related categories. This is a standard linking method that maintains taxonomy consistence without sacrificing usability.