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Taxonomy and page tagging

Metadata creation and management is essential for managing sites that are information rich or those that have any requirement of accessibility compliance.

With over a decade of experience in powering public sector websites and portals, Sitekit CMS has metadata woven into the content editing and page publishing process.This enables editors and site managers to proactively use metadata to enforce accessibility compliance such as government schemas like Dublin Core.

Sitekit taxonomy engine

The Sitekit taxonomy engine is a powerful set of tools which allows the structured management of document categorisation meaning that information on web pages can be organised and tagged in multiple ways at the same time, so that the information can be found by searches in different ways. It also means that relationships between the pages are known by the system, so cross-links between related content can be automated.
 
Public sector organisations typically use this feature to comply with information standards, like the need to have a well-managed publication scheme, but benefit because rather than simply ‘ticking a compliance box’ they can create benefits for visitors by providing a more usable and relevant visitor experience.

Private sector organisations can make products and services easier for their customers to find and make it easier for customers to find related products/services and to compare products and services.

Business benefits to adopting use of metadata

• Enables compliance with international accessibility standards such as eGMS, eGiF, and W3C.
• Content rich sites are easily managed using metadata frameworks and create direct benefits to site administrators and visitors alike, enabling categorisation by multiple themes such as 'Lawyers' by 'Region' ordered by 'A to Z'.
• Sites that use metadata are favoured by search engines and are able to expose more information to search engine spiders.

Customer examples:

NHS Leeds
NHS Leeds use this to manage publications for Freedom of Information compliance, and to tag content by topic in order to personalise a visitor’s experience based on user preferences. An older male interested in cancer for example will see the latest content tagged for cancer across the site and will see less content related to pregnancy or maternity.
 
Bales Worldwide
Bales Worldwide part of Virgin Holidays, for example tag their content by world region, month, and theme. So a visitor interested in a hot summer holiday in Latin America will see holidays to Brazil and won’t be offered a winter holiday in exploring the Antarctic.
 
Many web based systems do adopt ‘tagging’ in different forms, but Sitekit’s taxonomy engine is focused, managed and follows good knowledge management principles which are advantageous over common ‘folksonomies’ which are ad-hoc, unreliable and have little or no proper structure to allow reliable information management.