Targeted taxonomy

With more than 800 industry-focused terms, Factiva’s pharmaceutical and healthcare taxonomy is designed to help companies in those sectors organize and interpret information from both internal and external sources.

Factiva says the new taxonomy is structured as a series of extensions to its existing Intelligent Indexing taxonomy, as used within Factiva’s business information services. Factiva explains its industry, region, subject and company codes are already available under license to help organizations easily find relevant internal and external information.

The pharmaceuticals and healthcare taxonomy can be applied using Factiva Fusion, a content intelligence service, or can be integrated into a range of other categorization and search software packages, says Factiva. The company adds that its taxonomy specialists are available to further tailor the taxonomy and to merge it with a company’s specific information needs and internal structures. Further, says Factiva, they can also provide strategic advice and practical implementation assistance to ensure that the taxonomy delivers maximum business benefit to an organization.