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Indexing 101: A Candid Look At The Birds And The Bees
March 4, 2009
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By Sylvia Feldman, Optical Image Technology
King Philip Crossed Over From Germany Slowly.
Does that ring a bell? I don't know about you, but I definitely needed a memory device to get through high school Biology. As you may recall, that particular pneumonic helps budding scientists everywhere remember their biological classification schemes: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species. Right about now, you're probably thinking, "Ah yes. High school. What a fun trip down memory lane. But what in the world does all this have to do with enterprise content management?"
In a word, everything. Because without a relevant taxonomy, you're going to have diffi culty retrieving the documents that you image, import, and save to your electronic repository. And without a good scheme for retrieval, your return on your technology investment will be diminished.
Click Here To Download:•Guest Column: Indexing 101: A Candid Look At The Birds And The Bees
