Best Practices for Building Metadata and Taxonomy

A recent question was posted: "I am involved in creating a DAM solution for my company. The asset ranges from video, arts, images and photographs etc. I can say that the assets would be similar to what CORBIS, Getty Images have in place today. I would like to know is there any best practices for building Metadata and Taxonomy; What kind of architecture that I should follow etc. Please provide me some links and resources."

Seth Earley's Answer:  Here are a couple of links to start with:

Taxonomy Community of Practice: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TaxoCoP/

Taxonomy Wiki http://taxocop.wikispaces.com/

White Papers and Research Reports:  http://www.earley.com/Articles.asp

Archive of Conference calls and presentations on all aspects of taxonomy development and application:

http://www.earley.com/TaxoCoPArchive.asp

(If you have a problem accessing anything on the site, send a note to Faye@earley.com.)

If you have specific questions, feel free to post them here or send me a note. seth@earley.com

Seth