On the whole, the literature review reveals that the cultural heritage community
already possesses a wide variety of KOSs for accessing resources. There are also
sufficient indications that the community is aware that most of these well-established
KOSs cannot function effectively in networked environments, particularly due to the
lack of standardisation, user orientation and other legacy-related problems caused by
the fact that the community has so far thrived only in the non-digital and
non-networked world. The review also suggests that the development of KOSs for
cultural heritage networks must focus heavily on user behaviour, the facilitation of
browsing (in addition to searching as a mode of navigation) and the presence of
relationships (between different resources), as well as intuitive labelling systems
(terminology). Most importantly, the characteristics of taxonomies lend support to
their credentials as suitable candidates for such KOSs.