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Model your taxonomies the right way

Jan Cerman, Jake Kula

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If you already know what taxonomies

You can create taxonomies in Kontent.ai using either the built-in taxonomies or linked items.

The approach to choose depends on your specific requirements.

Requirement	Built-in taxonomies	Linked items
Build a sitemap	✅	✅
Control who can edit the terms without access to the content model	❌	✅
Enhance terms with contextual details like

you want in your project, it’s time to bring them to life. With taxonomies, you can start tagging your

content items

and

assets

. Once your content is properly tagged, you find it quicker and boost your productivity.

scope and definition

❌

✅

Find assets and content items by a term

✅

❌

Limit the number of terms to a range

✅

Limit the number of terms to exactly one

✅

Tag assets with a term

✅

❌

Tag content items with a term

✅

Set the taxonomy terms as non-localizable

✅

Use a flat hierarchy (terms on the same level)

✅

Use a nested hierarchy (terms on different levels)

✅

❌

Localize terms

❌

✅

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:

Creating a taxonomy group
Adding a taxonomy element to your content types and asset type
Tagging your content items and assets

See the article about built-in taxonomies for more details on how to create them.

In the following video, Monica and Samina from the Experts Circle share the benefits of taxonomies and how to use them.

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.What you'll need:

A content type

that defines your taxonomy

Content items based on the type that defines the taxonomy terms

Linked items element in the items you want to tag

Kontent.ai Learn

Choose the taxonomy approach that works for you

Built-in taxonomies for flexibility and findability

Play video on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afa8vjeX9c4

Linked items for permissions and added context

Choose the taxonomy approach that works for you

Built-in taxonomies for flexibility and findability

Linked items for permissions and added context

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Use taxonomies in Kontent.ai for bulk content operations.

Model your taxonomies the right way | Kontent.ai Learn

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.