The work aims, supported by theoretical and methodological areas of the Classification, Indexing, Linguistics and Documentation, submit a proposal to develop taxonomies. The taxonomy has the proposition of to classify and sort the information in specific areas of knowledge such as management support, of both information and knowledge. Is based on the analysis of elaboration practices of taxonomy identified in the literature. Deals, in the first part, with the construction of the taxonomy, presenting its development lined into five stages. The second part is devoted to the application of the taxonomy in the representation of information and organization of documents retrieved. Despite the recommendations having the goal of developing taxonomies in the corporate environment, their statements can be applied to any environment, making the necessary adaptations. We note that the taxonomy works the basic concepts of classification applied to the digital environment.
Taxonomy; Information representation; Information Organization; Knowledge representation
