Indexing

After you've developed a taxonomy, there is still the problem of applying terms to documents that have no metadata or are sitting on various file servers without much attention to organizing principles. There may be value in some of those documents, but the cost of reviewing them manually and indexing them is prohibitive. Since the purpose of developing a taxonomy is to improve search, we need to somehow address the issues in an efficient manner. In this session we looked at the challenges and tradeoffs of indexing large numbers of documents.