Autonomy Taxonomies

Employ proven Autonomy Taxonomies to quickly and accurately classify your enterprise content

One of the best ways to understand enterprise information is through content organization. When organized accurately, corporate information is not only easier to find, it's more valuable. Users can make better business decisions, corporate expertise is retained rather than lost and new business opportunities are uncovered.

Taxonomies are a proven and effective way of organizing content to meet the unique needs of different groups of users or to achieve specific business objectives. Researchers have found that deploying taxonomies can reduce the amount of time it takes to find information by 50%1-the same amount of time IDC believes is lost to ineffective search.

Using industry standards as the basis for taxonomies is a common way of jump-starting a classification initiative. These standards provide an agreed upon vocabulary with in-depth industry specific terminology. Autonomy Taxonomies deliver extremely accurate and relevant content organization that enhances the value of your enterprise's structured and unstructured information.

Benefits of Autonomy Taxonomies:

• Jump-start classification initiatives with tested and proven pre-built taxonomies
• Use taxonomy rules as controlled vocabularies or synonym lists to enhance search results
• Ensure compliance with industry standard vocabularies
• Easily customize industry-standard taxonomies to achieve specific business objectives
• Shorten implementation cycles
• Keep up-to-date with current events and industry changes with regular maintenance and updates from Autonomy

1 - Chen, Hao and Dumais, Susan, Bringing Order to the Web: Automatically Categorizing Search Results, 2000, Proceedings of CHI'00, Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 145-152

Industry Taxonomies

Based on industry standards, Autonomy Taxonomies are updated on a regular basis to ensure the categories and the business rules that define them are up-to-date. Available Autonomy Taxonomies include:

• Pharmaceutical Taxonomy
• Defense Taxonomy
• Homeland Security Taxonomy
• Enterprise Taxonomies: Human Resources, Information Technology, and Sales & Marketing

Pharmaceutical Taxonomy

The Autonomy Pharmaceutical Taxonomy is the National Library of Medicine's MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) taxonomy converted to an Autonomy taxonomy file and Autonomy business rules. This comprehensive taxonomy is the industry standard with over 300,000 terms and topics.

Defense Taxonomy

The Autonomy Defense Taxonomy is based on the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) thesaurus published by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). This provides a basic multidisciplinary vocabulary that includes close to 12,000 topics.

Homeland Security Taxonomy

Autonomy has built an extensive taxonomy on Homeland Security issues. Based on direct experience with solving content organization issues for intelligence agencies in the U.S. and around the globe, this comprehensive taxonomy includes over 700 categories on broad topics as well as narrower subjects.

Consumer Health Taxonomy

The Autonomy Consumer Health taxonomy is comprised of over 400 categories and their corresponding business rules. The customizable structure can be deployed for a variety of uses, such as consumer health sites or sites that provide health information and tools for those who want to seek greater medical understanding.

Enterprise Taxonomies

Finance Taxonomy

Introducing structure to corporate intranets, the Finance Taxonomy contains over 200 categories and business rules, allowing organizations to provide a navigable interface to help users find corporate finance information.

Legal Taxonomy

Used to organize documents pertaining to legal issues, the Legal Taxonomy contains 200 categories and business rules, including Alternative Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property and Employer Legal Issues.

Human Resources Taxonomy

Consists of standard human resource categories that are pre-defined with easily modified Autonomy business rules.

Information Technology Taxonomy

Defines categories and subcategories based on commonly used industry terminology and subjects.

Sales & Marketing Taxonomy

Includes pre-defined industry-standard categories for classifying sales and marketing information in most industries.