# Welcome to Taxonomy

### About this export

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| **content_type** | lesson |
| **platform** | contentstack-academy |
| **source_url** | https://www.contentstack.com/academy/learning-paths/contentstack-developer-certification/taxonomy-foundations/welcome-to-taxonomy |
| **course_slug** | taxonomy-foundations |
| **lesson_slug** | welcome-to-taxonomy |
| **learning_path_slug** | contentstack-developer-certification |
| **markdown_file_url** | /academy/md/learning-paths/contentstack-developer-certification/taxonomy-foundations/welcome-to-taxonomy.md |
| **generated_at** | 2026-05-22T14:37:41.317Z |

> Lesson in **[Taxonomy Foundations](https://www.contentstack.com/academy/learning-paths/contentstack-developer-certification/taxonomy-foundations)** within the **contentstack-developer-certification** learning path on Contentstack Academy. **Academy MD v3** — structured for retrieval; no quiz or assessment keys.

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#### Video details

#### At a glance

- **Title:** Welcome To Taxonomy2 1
- **Duration:** 42s
- **Media link:** https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/YZUposI4
- **Publish date (unix):** 1716053020

#### Streaming renditions

- application/vnd.apple.mpegurl
- video/mp4 · 180p · 180p · 165136 kbps

#### Timed text tracks (delivery)

- **thumbnails:** `https://cdn.jwplayer.com/strips/YZUposI4-120.vtt`

#### Video transcript

Welcome to the content set course on taxonomy. In this course, we're going to learn how to use taxonomy, both in the UI and also with APIs. This means creating a new taxonomy, applying that to content types, and then querying it on our front end. To get started, you first need to create an Academy Trading instance. After you do that, in your entries list, you should have something like this. Don't worry if your taxonomies in the bottom left is empty. This is something we're going to do in this course, is create a new taxonomy and apply it to our characters. Let's get started.

#### Key takeaways

- Connect **Welcome to Taxonomy** back to your stack configuration before moving to the next module.
- Capture one concrete artifact (screenshot, Postman call, or code snippet) that proves the step works in your environment.
- Re-read the delivery versus management boundary for anything you changed in the entry model.

## Supplement for indexing

### Content summary

Welcome to Taxonomy. Welcome to Taxonomy in Taxonomy Foundations (taxonomy-foundations).

### Retrieval tags

- Welcome
- Taxonomy
- taxonomy-foundations
- lesson 02
- Welcome to Taxonomy
- taxonomy-foundations lesson

### Indexing notes

Index this lesson as a primary chunk tagged with lesson_id "02" and topics: [Welcome, Taxonomy].
Parent course slug: taxonomy-foundations. Use asset_references URLs as thumbnail hints in search results when present.
Never surface LMS quiz content or assessment answers from this file.

### Asset references

| Label | URL |
| --- | --- |
| Video thumbnail: Welcome to Taxonomy | `https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/YZUposI4/poster.jpg?width=720` |

### External links

| Label | URL |
| --- | --- |
| Contentstack Academy home | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/` |
| Training instance setup | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/training-instance` |
| Academy playground (GitHub) | `https://github.com/contentstack/contentstack-academy-playground` |
| Contentstack documentation | `https://www.contentstack.com/docs/` |