[Sigia-l] my first taxonomy

[javier velasco]

Hi all:

I'm finally having the chance to design a taxonomy, and I've run into 
some questions along the way. I hope some of you can help me with these 
questions:

If I have understood correctly, a taxonomy consists of a hierarchical 
tree, where on every terminal point there is a special type of node 
where I can attach my keywords (terms) and associate the content. Each 
node's label is also a keyword in itself.

1)- Is this model right?

2)- Can the higher level nodes also have related keywords and articles?

3)- Do each of my tree's nodes have to be unique?

	Can some structures be repeated in this fashion?:

	-Music
	    -Rock
	        -Bands
	        -Solo Artists
	    -Pop
	        -Bands
	        -Solo Artists

The other issue that most confuses me is the way this works next to a 
Controlled Vocabulary / Thesaurus.

For what I've undesrstood so far, these are basically lists of preferred 
terms (a dictionary with no definitions). A thesaurus has a more robust 
set of rules to establish relationships between terms.

4)- How do you make these two elements work toghether?

Dizzily yours...

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javier
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