Re: tools for writing hierarchical taxonomy? (virtual card sorting)

[Abigail Samuel <writerabby -at- gmail -dot- com>]

You could have a look at the IBM task modeler to see whether it suits
your needs.
Its free to download from http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/taskmodeler

Regards,
Abigail

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Connie Giordano
<connie -at- therightwordz -dot- com> wrote:
> I'm about to embark on a similar project for a client.  For the first
> iteration, I plan to use a mind-mapping tool to brainstorm with the SMEs for
> this particular industry.  Most of these allow export to other file formats,
> so we'll probably go to Visio and/or spreadsheet to capture additional
> information.
>
> True taxonomy software is a rather expensive undertaking.  I did find one
> tool from KWiz.com that claims to do tagging and taxonomy in SharePpoint
> that was sort of reasonable, but in this project I don't get to recommend
> tools, so I'm just providing background on tools for them to consider.
>
> HTH
>
>
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> Subject: tools for writing hierarchical taxonomy? (virtual card sorting)
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> Anybody have a favorite tool for drafting hierarchical taxonomies?
>
> The ability to drag and drop subcategories and subcategory trees from
> one node to another would be helpful.
>
> Once it's final it will probably be a Visio diagram (Web site map).
>
> In the past, I've just used text files with tabs for subcategory
> levels. It's crude but efficient.
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