Today on a phone call, I used a point that i often use- “you can build the most ‘beautiful’ taxonomy ever but if you have nothing to use it for- it is not going to do you any good”. One of the common uses we see for a taxonomy is to use it in conjunction with a Content Management System (CMS) and many of our existing clients have our Synaptica tool integrated into their CMS systems.

Recently at Taxonomy Bootcamp, Stephanie Lemieux from Earley & Associates and Charlie Gray from Motorola presented a great session on ‘Integrating Taxonomy with a CMS for Dynamic Content‘ in which on slide 12 Stephanie pointed out:

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Important note….
A CMS is not a taxonomy management tool
-Most requirements will not be met by the CMS, even the big players
-External tool needed to manage taxonomy versioning, scope notes, associative relationships, and more
-CMS taxonomy management is very SLOW…
—1 term with 5 synonyms & 5 translations = 3 minutes
-If the taxonomy is more than 1000 terms, an excel spreadsheet will quickly become unmanageable
—Worse if you are doing multi-lingual

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