The Washington Post added Emily Clough to its News Product team as senior product editor for taxonomy and metadata. According to The Post, she is the first newsroom hire for WaPo 360, “the cross-company collaboration that will build a new structure for organizing Post content.

“Emily joins us from SiriusXM, where she created and managed metadata systems to help listeners find the shows and songs they want to hear. She also launched software to catalogue the thousands of images used on the satellite broadcaster’s platforms.

“Emily produced documents and training sessions to help colleagues at all levels of technical skill understand how to work within these new systems. She’ll soon be doing the same for us.”

According to Wikipedia, “taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. Among other things, a taxonomy can be used to organize and index knowledge (stored as documents, articles, videos, etc.), such as in the form of a library classification system, or a search engine taxonomy, so that users can more easily find the information they are searching for.”