General Information

Language

English.

Published

London : Facet Publishing, 2022.

Physical Description

258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Lippell, Helen, (editor.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

Taxonomies have become more widely-understood and used in the last decade as organisations seek to manage and exploit their information. The rise in understanding of the potential of semantic models has also led to an increase in demand for controlled vocabularies and ontology models. While education in classification and categorisation is becoming more and more mature, it does not necessarily prepare taxonomists for the everyday realities of working with stakeholders, sponsors and systems so that their taxonomies remain useful and relevant. Taxonomies: Practical Approaches to Developing and Managing Vocabularies for Digital Information is a curated anthology of expert-contributed chapters and case studies that cover the wide range of ways in which taxonomies are used in digital applications including the web, enterprise systems and libraries. The book brings together experts from a range of disciplines to provide realworld insights on how to build and implement a taxonomy in an organisation. The book will cover everything a working taxonomist - whether they’re an inhouse resource or a consultant - needs to consider, including business buy-in; working on a project team; choosing software; governance and maintenance and the wider societal dimensions of choosing categories and terminology.

Part 1: Getting Started. 1. Business Buy-in and Scoping / Maura Moran -- 2. Choosing Taxonomy Software / Joyce van Aalten -- Part 2: Building Taxonomies -- 3. Taxonomy Structuring and Scaling: A Standardised Approach / Jonathan Engel -- 4. The Diversity of Terms: Respecting Culture and Avoiding Bias / Bharat Dayal Sharma -- 5. Relationships, Hierarchies and Semantics / Bob Kasenchak -- 6. User Testing and Validation / Tom Alexander -- 7. Taxonomy and Vocabulary Interoperability / Yonah Levenson -- 8. Everything that Will Go Wrong in your Taxonomy Project / Ed Vald -- Part 3: Applications. 9. Enterprise Search / Michele Jenkins -- 10. Taxonomy and Digital Asset Management / Sara James and Jeremy Bright -- 11. Powering Structured Content with Taxonomies / Rahel Anne Bailie -- 12. Information Architecture and E-commerce / Margaret Hanley -- Part 4: Business Adoption. 13. Implementing Taxonomies and Metadata: Lessons from a Busy Newsroom / Annette Feldman -- 14. Taxonomy Governance / Cynthia Knowles -- 15. Taxonomy Maintenance / Helen Challinor -- 16. The Taxonomist's Role in a Development Team / Jo Kent -- Appendix A: Metadata Template to Capture Taxonomy Term Diversity / Bharat Dayal Sharma -- Appendix B: Semantics: Some Basic Ontological Principles / Bob Kasenchak -- Appendix C: Metadata Model Template / Yonah Levenson -- Glossary / Bob Kasenchak and Helen Lippell.

Subjects

Subject

Knowledge management

Ontologies (Information retrieval)

Information technology

Information science

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Helen Lippell.

ISBN

9781783304813

9781783304820

9781783304837

9781783305254

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Archival, library and information sciences collection	020 LIP		Reference	-

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