taxonomy-design

You design a taxonomy by defining terms with scope notes, establishing explicit hierarchical or faceted structures, and setting relationship types including broader, narrower, related, and use. This makes content findable and governable across systems.

Hierarchical structures organize terms into strict parent-child trees, while faceted structures group terms into multiple independent categories. Polyhierarchical structures allow a term to have multiple parents for flexible data modeling and filtering.

You define term metadata by adding scope notes and exclusions to clarify meaning. Relationship types are established using standard notation including broader term, narrower term, related term, use, and used for to connect terminology within your data model.

Set up taxonomy governance by defining policies to track changes and manage versioning. This ensures stable vocabulary evolution, maintains data integrity, and tracks policy updates across systems.

Yes, you can create a polyhierarchical taxonomy for navigation and search filtering. This structure allows a single term to belong to multiple parent categories, improving content findability and enabling flexible filtering across complex domains.