Taxonomies
You can manage your taxonomies internally in Content Manager or externally in Taxonomy Space. With either method or both in combination, you can define a unified classification system across all of your company's content repositories. Using the taxonomies that you implement, Editors and other non-technical Content Manager users are able to select tags for both internal Keywords and external taxonomy concepts, which classifies the content according to the associated taxonomies.
In Tridion Sites, taxonomies are represented by Categories, both for internal and external taxonomies.
- Internal taxonomy
- To create internal taxonomies, you create Categories, and then create Keywords within the Categories. For a hierarchical taxonomy, you can define parent and child relationships between Keywords simply by creating them in a nested structure, plus you can manually define additional relationships to other Keywords.
- External taxonomy
- To implement external taxonomies, you also create Categories, which you associate with taxonomies managed in Taxonomy Space. The taxonomy's concepts become available within Content Manager as Concept items, which behave in much the same way as Keywords.