Bottom-up approach to taxonomy development

"In my previous post, I brought up a topic on the implementation challenges of taxonomy and suggested a few points on overcoming pitfalls for multi-faceted taxonomy implementation. This time round, my reflection is based on ground 0, where there is no corporate taxonomy design to start with.

This idea requires incremental and continuous investment and its not a short project period affair. Like the Chinese saying goes, "Cast a long line to catch a bigger fish"."

http://si177on.blogspot.com/2008/01/bottom-up-approach-to-taxonomy.html

• each folder should not contain more than 15 sub-folders or documents (human beings are generally comfortable with 8 - 15 items in a cluster)

• the number of folder levels should not exceed 7 (this prevents document from gaining too much depth making it hard for others to find or discover)