Taxonomies

A taxonomy represents a hierarchy of classification tags made up of one or more levels of tags. It provides a structured view of one or more document collections Once source data has been ingested, the resulting Documents are stored in a Collection. Once Documents are stored in a Collection, you can browse, search and edit Documents. Only text-based Documents is stored in Collections, not the original source files. by dividing documents into different classification groups. Taxonomies do not contain document collections. Collections are remembered as mappings only. Taxonomies are designed to collaborate with Structured Classifiers to create and refine document classification tags.

In a taxonomy, taxonomy tags are organised as a tree of taxonomy nodes. Each level of the tree represents a classification group associated with a particular tag category.

A taxonomy tag is a classification label given to a particular tag category (a level on the taxonomy). The same taxonomy tag may be present in different branches on the same level, each as a separate taxonomy node.

Taxonomy tags on the same level are mutually exclusive, that is, any single document should have a single unique tag for each taxonomy level.

A taxonomy node is an instance of a taxonomy tag positioned on the tree. A taxonomy node is identified by having a path from root to its location across different levels of taxonomy tags.

Multiple documents can be assigned to a Taxonomy Node (see Assign documents to Taxonomies).

Designing and creating taxonomies

Managing taxonomies