If you already know what taxonomies you want in your project, it’s time to bring them to life. With taxonomies, you can start tagging your content items and assets to boost your productivity.
Choose the taxonomy approach that works for you
You can create taxonomies in Kontent.ai using either the built-in taxonomies or linked items. The approach to choose depends on your requirements.
Built-in taxonomies for flexibility and findability
The built-in taxonomy groups are the most intuitive and easiest approach to implementing taxonomies in Kontent.ai. The benefits? You can tag items and assets, find the items and assets by your tags, and create complex nested taxonomies.It takes three things: taxonomy group, taxonomy element in your content types, and tagging your content items. See the article about built-in taxonomies for more details on how to create it.In the following video, Jake Kula, our Presales Engineer, will go over taxonomies and how to use them.
Linked items for permissions and added context
If you need to add extra contextual details to your taxonomies, let content creators update them, or localize the terms, you need to implement your taxonomy using linked items.It takes a few things: a content type that defines your taxonomy, content items based on the type that define the taxonomy terms, and linked items elements in the items you want to tag.Let’s take a look at an example of a taxonomy for tagging educational content.
1. Create a content type for the taxonomy
In Content model, click Create new.
In Content type name, type a name such as Humanities.
(Optional) Add guidelines elements to explain the taxonomy and tell content creators how to use it correctly.
Check that we explained taxonomies and how to use them sufficiently.
Example: Humanities and Natural Sciences are your taxonomies created as content types. The terms of the taxonomies are created as content items.
After creating content items for every term in the taxonomy, you just need a linked items element to link the terms to other content items like articles.
When you link your content item to the right term, it will look like this.
Choosing in the nutshellChoose linked items if you need at least one of the following:
Content creators need to manage the tags
More information is required to express the relationship
Terms need to be localized
In all other cases, use built-in taxonomies.
Even untagged content can be filteredUse the ø Not in filter to quickly find and filter untagged content in the content inventory.
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