This is a general announcement that I am now accepting registrations for the fall session of the online course: Creating Web Site A-Z Indexes a.. Core 8-week...
Though I have not seen Heather's course, indexing is an excellent perspective to take when developing a taxonomy. An indexer looks at content and says "hmm......
Hi all - I am wondering if anyone has a reference for an XML schema that can be used for publishing a taxonomy for use by systems outside of the system where...
... Yes, this is _precisely_ what Zthes is intended for. ... The draft of the new revision of the ANSI/NISO standard Z39.19 for monolingual thesaurus...
Hi Lee, From what you describe, it sounds like you want something like XFML. However, XFML is not maintained anymore so I do not recommend this. Instead I...
In addition to Mike Taylor's response, there is also VocML. The DTD can be found at: http://xml.coverpages.org/vocML.html. However, the web page is dated...
(apologies for cross-posting) Hello; Steve Krug and I will be teaching our seminars in three US cities this fall: Washington, DC (9/15-16), Chicago (9/29-30),...
Very interesting discussion thread. Its such a difficult problem (expressing complex and varying conceptual relationships in a standard format) that you can...
Just the messenger..... ... We are currently staffing several short and long-term temporary projects requiring demonstrated taxonomy experience and a MLS...
Hello all - My name is Frank Montoya and I am a Knowledge Manager who has been on the path of identifying and managing an enterprise taxonomy. Based on Content...
Thanks Gina, I have heard people asking about positions so its fine to post these. Seth Seth Earley Earley & Associates, Inc 781-444-0287 781-820-8080 cell ...
Hi Frank, My thought is that you will need to enroll the users who are going to be applying these terms in their job tasks to define them. You can do this in...
... be ... I think you're right Seth, not some external experts should not know what these categories mean but the people who will use it to store and find...
Seth, Seth this is helpful. I have identified a group of stakeholders as well as a taxonomy review board that is representative of many areas globally across...
Glad that was useful. I'd be interested (as I am sure the group would) in hearing your progress - especially the reactions to your initial definitions and...
Hi all - First, thanks to everyone for providing some more pointers and references. Very helpful. Second - in response to Seth's question below, here's what...
In case anyone is interested in indexing courses..... The UC Berkeley Extension indexing course has two sections which are open on an alternating basis. The...
[ apologies for cross-posting ] Hi all. We have hierarchical controlled vocabularies for classifying our documents when submitting them to the system (in-house...
Hi Kate, One way to do this in a web form is shown in: http://www.scbr.com/docs/products/dhtmlxTree/samples/treeEx23.html This is a JavaScript library that...
Hello Taxonomy Group My name is Ken Hassman, I am 57 years of age, single, living in Sacramento, CA. Along with teaching elementary school for the last 10 ...
All, I'm working on a taxonomy for a site dealing with children's issues - children at risk and their families. My initial thoughts were to pull search logs to...
Ken, One place to start is the series of articles that some colleagues and I are writing on metadata and controlled vocabularies for the online journal...
Hi Fred Thansk very much for the information below. When I click on the link you have provided I get a screen that has nothing in/on it except: "No input file...
I finally found a copy of "Thesaurus Construction and Use" on the UK Amazon site. I tried the US site first and after 3 months, they wrote and told me that it...
Hi Olga, There is a very extensive existing thesaurus on many of these topics that your tax dollars (if you're an American) have already created: it's called...
Olga, I haven't worked with this topic, but I would try going to child welfare agency web sites -- government and private to get an overview of the main topics...
