Fresh from the Firehead bookmarks, here is our round-up of recent content strategy posts we’ve enjoyed this month. We’ve also dug into the archives and pulled out our bookmarks on taxonomy and ontology. Enjoy!
Content strategy
Using the Valuable Content Checklist: A Step-by-Step Guide for Different Content Types
A great checklist for anyone who has to process content.
Rahel Bailie has been posting about the different CS deliverables on a project, creating a useful reference for content strategy practitioners.
What are the four critical components that Kristina Halvorson’s agency Brain Traffic considers in every content strategy?
What are the best books on content strategy?
A new question on Quora gets a few suggestions for content strategy must-reads – but do you agree?
Here’s our own recent round-up of content strategy presentations from the world’s leading web festival held annually in March.
Taxonomy and ontology
Taxonomy vs. Information Architecture
A lowdown on taxomony as it relates to content management.
On using vocabularies and tags to organise your content within Drupal (an open source content management system). This post also features a how-to video on enabling the vocabulary and tagging/retrieving image content.
The role of taxonomy in intelligent content
How a well-crafted taxonomy can bridge the gap when content management and search falls short.
Quick links
- CMS Wiki : Taxonomy – Taxonomy defined.
- CMS Wiki : Ontology – Ontology defined.
- A primer on taxonomy – The difference between terms
- Successful content management through taxonomy and metadata design – Slide presentation.
- Ontology-based domain modelling for consistent content change management – Study paper.
- Content management: Towards an ontology for online information systems (PDF) – Study paper.
Read more Firehead links.