Taxonomy trends for 2020 include growth in ecommerce taxonomies and intranet/digital employee experience taxonomies. Longer on-going trends include auto-categorization, AI, and machine learning with taxonomies, and the integration/convergence of taxonomies and ontologies. The integration of taxonomies and ontologies is described in more detail.
Taxonomy Consultant
Hedden Information Management
http://www.hedden-information.com/
Heather Hedden has been a practicing taxonomist for 24 years, in various organizations and as an independent consultant with Hedden Information Management. She has designed and developed, taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, and metadata schema for various internal and externally published content. Ms.
