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title: "Manage taxonomies"
slug: "manage-taxonomies"
abstract: "An overview of taxonomies and how to manage them."
---
# Manage taxonomies

While the content model gives structure to your content, [a taxonomy](https://doc.sitecore.com/ch-one/en/users/content-hub-one/content-modeling/content-modeling.md "Content modeling") provides a system for organizing content into categories and then classifying the content in each category based on shared characteristics. This lets content authors, and those consuming the output, sort, filter, and find content more easily.

Before using taxonomies, decide on the broad categories into which your content can be classified (for example, *Hotels*, *Destinations*, *Tours*). These categories translate into the content types used to create content. Then, decide the breakdown in each category, for example, within the *Hotels* category, you might have *Amenities* and *Room type*.

Once you have decided on a taxonomy strategy, you can manage taxonomies from the **Taxonomies** page.

![taxonomies page](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/ch-one/en/users/content-hub-one/images/taxonomies_page.png)

Adding a [**Select** field](https://doc.sitecore.com/ch-one/en/users/content-hub-one/content-modeling/manage-content-type-fields.md "Manage content type fields") to a content type and linking it to a taxonomy lets content authors select taxonomy values when they create content based on that type. You can either [create the taxonomy](https://doc.sitecore.com/ch-one/en/users/content-hub-one/content-modeling/manage-taxonomies/create-a-taxonomy.html "Create a taxonomy") and its values before you [create the content type](https://doc.sitecore.com/ch-one/en/users/content-hub-one/content-modeling/create-a-content-type.md "Create a content type"), or you can create them when you add the **Select** field.

In the following example, the taxonomy *Amenities* contains five taxonomy values and is associated with the **Select** field *Amenities*.

![amenities example](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/ch-one/en/users/content-hub-one/images/amenities_example.png)