AEM Taxonomy Implementation

Question

Hi all,

I am following https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-learn/sites/page-authoring/expert-advice/site-hierarchy to understand AEM Taxonomy.

This subject looks very dry.

Could you share an implementation (even a fictitious one) with AEM Taxonomy please?

That way I will be able to correlate it with the implementation to get a better view.

Appreciate all your replies.

Thanks,

RK.

Tethich · Accepted Answer

AEM has some good documentation on how and why to use Tags: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-65/content/sites/authoring/siteandpage/tags

But here we are talking about taxonomy, which is only a concept helping you to decide how to organize your tags, the idea being to later best support the site functionalities.

And yes, tags can have / in their paths. Below is a simple example of nested tags, which is like a taxonomy. How you leverage the taxonomy (eventually through some custom development which may read and use this taxonomy) is totally up to you. Your project AEM architect should have a saying in this.

Tethich · Answer

AEM Taxonomy is more like a concept, a best practice on how to organize things as per your needs. A taxonomy can vary a lot depending on what each project needs to implement. But at the end of the day it a custom scheme meant to ease your work by categorizing things into groups or classes or however you want to call it. Usually they should help to quickly find things by marking them with specific elements from the taxonomy.

The documentation page already gives an fictional example with the cars.

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