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Here we explore how to construct them, and how they can help your business.","Getting and keeping ourselves organized – from fridges to files – is an ongoing challenge of modern life. One of the promises of the digital age was that it would help free us from some of this work. However, the volume of digital information has exploded, and now we’re all struggling to manage an overwhelming […]","Getting and keeping ourselves organized – from fridges to files – is an ongoing challenge of modern life. One of...","\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Getting and keeping ourselves organized – from fridges to files – is an ongoing challenge of modern life. One of the promises of the digital age was that it would help free us from some of this work.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the volume of digital information has exploded, and now we’re all struggling to manage an overwhelming flow of digital communication and files across our professional lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"toc-1--what-is-a-taxonomy\">What is a taxonomy?\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canto takes digital organization seriously – it’s at the heart of digital asset management. It’s easier to stay organized when we use simple schemas and familiar ideas to group similar things. These ideas and schemas best unite in what the information scientists and librarians call a taxonomy, i.e. a system used to classify things.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The truth is that almost everybody uses a taxonomy in their lives. Some taxonomies are huge, like the biological taxonomy, and others are small, like the “in tray” and “out tray” that sat on office desks before computers existed. Paper was either “incoming” or “outgoing” and that simple taxonomy kept a lot of paper flowing.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now we build some pretty sophisticated taxonomies for incoming and outgoing digital information and assets. How a digital asset taxonomy is designed and structured will be different for each company and its particular business objectives. It should, however, follow conventions natural to your team. In Canto’s digital asset management system, you can create a taxonomy via keywords and tags. Here’s how it works.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"toc-2--setting-up-a-keyword-or-tag-taxonomy\">Setting up a keyword or tag taxonomy\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can start your company’s taxonomy with a list of terms that forms a classification structure. This list might span the concepts, functions or products that identify or describe groups of digital assets that are important to your business purpose. From this list you can construct a workable skeleton of numerous keywords, each of which hierarchically contains multiple tags.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here’s a helpful way to remember it:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>Keywords\u003C\u002Fstrong> = high-level (broad context)\u003Cbr \u002F>\u003Cstrong>Tags\u003C\u002Fstrong> = low-level (specific context)\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This simple keyword\u002Ftag system yields a lot of power. This is because of the way keywords and tags can interact. Let’s explore the nature of keywords and tags below to learn how.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keywords\u003C\u002Fh3>\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keywords are Canto’s high-level labels. These are best kept to 12-20 in number that can cover the breadth of your current and anticipated digital assets. Because it is best to limit the number of keywords in a digital asset taxonomy, only Canto Administrators can create new keywords, while contributors are free to apply those keywords to assets.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because Canto uses \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fblog\u002Fmetadata\u002F\">metadata\u003C\u002Fa> tools to automatically organize assets by file type, there’s no need to use keywords to distinguish different types of media (e.g. images from videos). Applied keywords should instead indicate the content found in media files or the asset’s intended use. Here are some examples of keyword schemas:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"584\" src=\"\u002Fcdn\u002Fen\u002F2018\u002F08\u002F19185354\u002Fgetting-organized-keywords-tags-12.png\" alt=\"The Canto system displaying keywords for an image.\" class=\"wp-image-57396\" srcset=\"\u002Fcdn\u002Fen\u002F2018\u002F08\u002F19185354\u002Fgetting-organized-keywords-tags-12.png 1536w, \u002Fcdn\u002Fen\u002F2018\u002F08\u002F19185354\u002Fgetting-organized-keywords-tags-12-450x171.png 450w, \u002Fcdn\u002Fen\u002F2018\u002F08\u002F19185354\u002Fgetting-organized-keywords-tags-12-1024x389.png 1024w, \u002Fcdn\u002Fen\u002F2018\u002F08\u002F19185354\u002Fgetting-organized-keywords-tags-12-768x292.png 768w\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\u003Cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\u003Cli>Locations: Landmarks, Buildings, Environments\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Objects: Products, Stock Art\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Notable People: Board members, Executives, Volunteers\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Campaigns\u002FProjects: Marketing Campaigns, Sales Collateral\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Themes: Travel, Lifestyle, Seasonal\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Screen Shot 2016-10-26 at 12.22.47 PM\u003C\u002Fli>\u003C\u002Ful>\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The keywords “Landmark”, “Lifestyle”, and “Travel” provide high-level context for the image (without being too descriptive).\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tags\u003C\u002Fh3>\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tags are Canto’s low-level labeling convention. Both Canto Administrators and Contributors can create tags and add them to assets. Think of tags as a way of “supporting” keywords – they provide details that keywords are too broad to convey. Unlike keywords, you can and should use a large number of tags to describe details about an asset.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here’s an example of how tags and keywords work together:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"788\" src=\"\u002Fcdn\u002Fen\u002F2018\u002F08\u002F19185354\u002Fgetting-organized-keywords-tags-11.png\" alt=\"The Canto system using tags.\" class=\"wp-image-57399\" srcset=\"\u002Fcdn\u002Fen\u002F2018\u002F08\u002F19185354\u002Fgetting-organized-keywords-tags-11.png 768w, \u002Fcdn\u002Fen\u002F2018\u002F08\u002F19185354\u002Fgetting-organized-keywords-tags-11-439x450.png 439w\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\u003Cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\u003Cli>Keyword type: Location\u003Cbr \u002F>\u003Cbr \u002F>Tags: names of landmarks (“state park”, “monument”), names of buildings (“state capitol”, “Empire State”), names of environments (“rainforest”, “arctic”)\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Keyword type: Template\u003Cbr \u002F>\u003Cbr \u002F>Tags: titles of blank documents (“employee contract”, “NDA”), Adobe CC designs (“infographic”, “flyer”, “poster”)\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Keyword type: Themes\u003Cbr \u002F>\u003Cbr \u002F>Tags: names of travel destinations (“Barcelona”, “Thailand”), names of seasons (“Summer”, “Christmas”), lifestyle descriptors (“healthy”, “green”, “surf culture”)\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Screen Shot 2016-10-26 at 12.23.36 PM\u003C\u002Fli>\u003C\u002Ful>\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tags provide a more thorough description of the image and support the context provided by the keywords.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"toc-3--the-power-of-canto-taxonomies\">The power of Canto taxonomies\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you can see, grouping digital assets into a keyword\u002Ftag taxonomy helps you label and ultimately manage a large number of assets, without needing to visually analyze them one by one to discover useful content. By applying a well-designed and descriptive structure of keywords and tags, you save your team countless hours of opening folders and files to find needed content. Your assets will be digitally classified, and therefore searchable and easier to find in a massive media library.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With an easily understood taxonomy, your assets can be more easily searched by and shared with new team members and stakeholders. They will quickly pick up on your system, and will soon be able to store, discover and share digital assets themselves. Give Canto a try today and start putting some organizational structure to your digital assets.\u003C\u002Fp>",4,{"url":37,"url_md":38,"alt":39,"height":40,"width":41},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.canto.com\u002Fcdn\u002Fen\u002F2018\u002F08\u002F19185355\u002Fgetting-organized-keywords-tags-13.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.canto.com\u002Fcdn\u002Fen\u002F2018\u002F08\u002F19185355\u002Fgetting-organized-keywords-tags-13-450x263.jpg","A book with letters flying out of it.",700,1200,[43],{"id":44,"slug":44,"title":45,"path":46},"digital-asset-management","Digital Asset Management","\u002Fpost-category\u002Fdigital-asset-management\u002F",[48,55,62],{"featuredImage":49,"postId":50,"slug":51,"title":52,"description":53,"path":54},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.canto.com\u002Fcdn\u002Fen\u002F2016\u002F08\u002F19195356\u002FiStock_83784403_MEDIUM2-450x300.jpg",5906,"box-dam","Box digital asset management: Why a DAM outperforms basic file storage","Common file storage systems like Dropbox are bare bones systems. A DAM system goes further organizing and managing your digital assets.","\u002Fblog\u002Fbox-dam\u002F",{"featuredImage":56,"postId":57,"slug":58,"title":59,"description":60,"path":61},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.canto.com\u002Fcdn\u002Fen\u002F2024\u002F05\u002F19183857\u002Fblog-dominos-feature-2-450x263.jpg",64772,"how-dominos-pizza-uk-serves-up-efficiencies-with-digital-asset-management","How Domino’s Pizza UK serves up efficiencies with digital asset management","See how Domino’s Pizza UK set their in-house creative agency up for success with Canto — empowering the team, tackling burnout, and building credibility across the corporation.","\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-dominos-pizza-uk-serves-up-efficiencies-with-digital-asset-management\u002F",{"featuredImage":63,"postId":64,"slug":65,"title":66,"description":67,"path":68},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.canto.com\u002Fcdn\u002Fen\u002F2020\u002F01\u002F19192735\u002Fdigital-asset-management-rfp-450x295.jpg",39789,"digital-asset-management-rfp","3 important things to include in your RFP for a digital asset management system","Constructing a strong RFP for a digital asset management is vital, as whichever DAM you select needs to be functional for many years. 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