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Taxonomy Lifecycle Management

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Taxonomies provide a consistent, shared vocabulary that your enterprise can use to organize and leverage unstructured information from multiple repositories and applications. Ensuring that taxonomies accurately reflect changing business conditions and that document categorization remain as accurate as possible involves a five-step process to manage the total taxonomy lifecycle. The Stratify Taxonomy Manager™ interface provides a single, integrated management tool that combines automation, reporting and human review for every step of the lifecycle.

Create Taxonomy Structure
Enterprisewide taxonomies must accurately reflect both the structure of your data universe and your organization's mission. The Stratify Taxonomy Manager interface enables editors to automatically create a new taxonomy based on documents supplied from any source; import an existing taxonomy (either as an XML file or directly from a file system or Web site); or create a taxonomy manually.
Define Taxonomy Topics
Categorization models define how and under what conditions a document should be categorized into particular topics in the taxonomy. The Stratify Taxonomy Manager interface enables editors to create topic definitions using statistical, Boolean, keyword and source-rule categorizers (as well as additional categorizers that can be added to the Discovery System) in any combination, as well as create business rules between topic.
Test and Assess Topic Definitions
Changes and revisions to categorization models need to be tested and evaluated in real-time to assess their accuracy, without disrupting the use of published taxonomies. Editors and administrators can test their models using the Stratify Real-time Classifier™ software. Using the models provided by the Stratify Real-time Classifier software, editors can compare and validate definition revisions against sets of test documents.
Publish and Classify Taxonomies
After reviewing the taxonomy structure and categorization models, editors or administrators can publish the taxonomy - initiating the process of categorizing documents and making the taxonomy and resulting document categorizations available to applications and users throughout the enterprise. Editors can access analytical insights on all documents processed by Stratify Discovery System™ software and manually accept, reject, or revise specific categorizations.
Refine and Optimize Taxonomies
Editors must be able to refine and optimize their taxonomies so they remain relevant to changing business conditions and corporate goals. The Stratify Taxonomy Manager interface provides editors three approaches to meeting these objectives: they can automatically refine topics in a taxonomy; optimize the structure of a taxonomy subtree or version; or optimize topic training sets to achieve highly accurate topic definitions.