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Heather Hedden on Taxonomies

The Informed Life

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The Challenges of Providing a Taxonomy for Expert Users

I remember in one part of the book you talk about the difference in confering a taxonomy for expert users versus the general public. And that's why I've also been interested in information architecture because that is also very much user centered. Yeah, I was just thinking about how there are different interfaces and they might offer an advanced search versus just starting with the search box or filter by other topics. So that's one way of adapting to users of different abilities or levels. But what remains a challenge is what to call and name the actual taxonomy terms if some would be more,. especially i could say in a health or medical field. Medical professionals would use different terms than patients or just the

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