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Taxonomy

The application of a useful taxonomy to enterprise information is what determines whether the content reuse system achieves benefits for the organization or becomes just another expensive idea.

All learning objects are defined by taxonomies. These taxonomies express the way in which each object is understood, used and maintained. In evaluating how to construct learning object models for an XML repository, it is very important to understand that these are used to define queries. The value of the system is dependent upon the ease and accuracy of queries. Many organizations discovered too late that they had expended substantial resources in creating an XML (or SGML) repository that provided no additional benefit over cutting and pasting docs from a file server. This is because their content authors could not find anything that was placed into the repository.



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