(apologies for cross-posting) Hello; apropos to the topic of yesterday's excellent Earley & Associates webinar, I want to get the word out about the fall...
Hi All Next year's IA Summit will be in Memphis, Tennessee - the theme is Expanding Our Horizons so please consider submitting a proposal on some good ol' taxo...
Hi, I am a metadata librarian for a small publisher. We compile reading selections into single volumes for university professors, and sell the collections to...
A new full-day workshop through the continuing education program of Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science: "Taxonomies and...
** Paper Submission: September 30, 2008 (Deadline Extension) ** ============================================================== International Workshop on...
Hello All, It's nice to be part of a group dealing with these issues. I am Director of Internet Strategy at kgb, formerly known as INFONXX, a global leader in...
Hello, I we are a small magazine and book publishing company and are looking for information on creating a taxonomy for a future digital asset management...
Alex, A good place to start is the ANSI/NISO z39.19 guidelines. http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-19-2005.pdf Also, this is a nice set of slides on...
There are several good books on taxonomy design that have recently been published, in addition to Jean Aitchison's classic "Taxonomy Design and Use." You can...
I'll just follow up on the excellent suggestions so far. One thing you can do without a consultant or books (although both will be very helpful) is to...
Most of my taxonomy experience is in Digital Asset Management, so I'll toss mine in here. I'm assuming that we are looking most specifically at something as...
Hi Alex. I published an article entitled "Building a keyword library for description of visual assets: Thesaurus basics" in the January, 2007 issue of the...
My company recently acquired an enterprise search engine for its SharePoint based intranet. This search engine supports a form of 'best bets' and a limited...
Paul Putting phrases in quotes is standard behaviour for search so that makes sense to some degree, but not all acronyms / synonyms are phrases so as an end...
Paul/Mike This also brings up another question - should/does the Best Bets feature match against phrases that aren't quoted? At the surface, it seems like this...
An elaboration: The thesaurus is applied automatically to all single word terms, but multiword terms must be enclosed in quotes for the thesaurus to be...
Hi Paul - Some of my thoughts below: ... [LR] Yes, I would recommend that all queries be processed through the thesaurus. That being said, it's not really...
An article in the new issue of Wired (unfortunately, this particular article is not available online) called "Barcode of Life" describes efforts to identify...
Specifically, if we create a faceted layout, then how difficult would it be to add more facets later? That way we wouldn't have to go so crazy trying to make...
Not only should it be it easy to add facets, but it's a good idea allow additional metadata to spawn facets (or at least sub-facets) dynamically. That is, if...
I would add to Avi's advice that doing a bit of end-user analysis upfront should reveal the facets they most frequently think in (a facet represents an...
Adding on to the excellent advice, a couple of points to be aware off: 1) Understanding excatly what is the purpose of the facets and how they are going to...
I just signed up for the TaxoCoP group, and would like to introduce myself. Healthwise produces consumer-oriented healthcare information both for online use...
***Apologies for cross-posting*** We would like to invite you to a half-day event organized by the British Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge...
... Question to all: what makes a database 'faceted'? is this the way the DB is constructed plus UI? as long as appropriate data is available, isn't the...
A faceted taxonomy means one that is sorted according to multiple criteria. This makes for easier information retrieval as each item is tagged multiple times. ...
Hello Jay... Looking at facets from the database standpoint, I would imagine that if the plan was to collect facets, i.e. particular features of an object, the...
Hello Eric... ... Items in a library may be classified a certain way for allow placement on the shelf next to similar material, but each item is also tagged ...
Yes, but tagging and taxonomies are not the same thing. Library items are only classified once, but digital resources and items in the catalogue may have...
Hello all, I am looking for taxonomists to join our team in NY. This project is for an exciting startup business developing a Web 2.0 site that will leverage...
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