Useful article on organizing content

http://www.uie.com/articles/folksonomies/

Brief summary of article:

This holds some useful information on how to organize, and ultimately search, content on websites.

A taxonomy is a hierarchical tree structure such as those used in scientific classification schemes. Every web site contains its own unique information, so there is no single classification scheme that works for everybody. Hence taxonomies don’t work well.

Folksonomies are a new user-driven approach to organizing information. Sites with folksonomies include two basic capabilities: they let users add “tags” to information and they create navigational links out of those tags to help users find and organize that information later.