Level 2
taxonomy-design
Applies established tags, categories, and metadata schemas consistently to content, and identifies basic relationships between existing terms.
Taxonomy Design
Model related concepts into stable machine-readable structures.
Skill Reference
taxonomy-design
Level Descriptors
Level 3
taxonomy-design
Creates and maintains simple flat or hierarchical vocabularies for specific content types, ensuring terms are clear, mutually exclusive, and unambiguous.
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Level 4
taxonomy-design
Designs faceted taxonomies and controlled vocabularies based on user research and search log analysis, establishing clear parent-child relationships and synonyms (variant terms).
Level 5
taxonomy-design
Develops comprehensive taxonomy governance policies, bridges disparate metadata structures across different systems, and conducts card-sorting or tree-testing to validate structures.
Level 6
taxonomy-design
Architects enterprise-wide knowledge graphs and complex ontologies, integrates semantic web standards (SKOS, OWL), and aligns taxonomy strategy with machine learning and AI discovery systems.