Hi all, Following the ASI pre-conference workshop "Taxonomy and Thesaurus Creation" on Wednesday, April 30, I am organizing a networking dinner at 6:00 pm at ...
The ASI Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies SIG will be having its first face-to-face meeting at the ASI national conference in Denver during the SIG meetings...
Heather, I am unable to attend the May 2nd meeting. I have to leave Denver on the 1st, but look forward to dinner on April 30th. But I would like to comment...
Hi Heather - Thanks for sending this. I won't be able to attend the conference this year, but I look forward to hearing about it from other indexers. In...
The board of the American Society for Indexing yesterday approved the Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies SIG as a new officially affiliated special interest...
Congratulations to Heather and fellow members. This is a well deserved, and to my mind never doubted, accolade to the importance of taxonomy and cv work in ...
Hi Suzi and all. No, this discussion list is not limited to SIG members. It would be good to get a few vendors, consultants, etc., involved in taxonomies but...
Hello SIG members, The Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies SIG members met during SIG meeting time of the annual conference of the American Society for ...
Upon the news of ASI officially approving two new affiliated SIGs: Periodical & Database Indexing Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies I have written a press...
I'm John Gregory, Senior Consultant for Primescape Solutiions. I am developing a taxonomy for the Ofice of the Comptroller of the Currency, part of the...
Welcome, John. Thanks for introducing yourself. There have been a few other new particpants in the discussion group who have not yet introduced themselves, and...
http://asis.org/Chapters/asispvc/otherevents/TaxTues.pdf That's the url. I don't know if they are still doing it, I've never had time to go. When you are a...
Our client, a design firm consultancy, in West Newton MA, is looking for an Digital Asset Administrator to join their team. You will assist with the design and...
Hello~ You may have seen my posting about the taxonomy position. As a seasoned librarian of 12 years, it is difficult for me to find Librarians specializing...
Hi, taxonomy groupies, I'm Alice Redmond-Neal, and I've been working in and around taxonomies for over a decade with Access Innovations in Albuquerque, the...
Hi Alice, Thank you for introducing yourself. I'm pleased to have you join this discussion group and glad to hear that you recently joined ASI as well. There...
I am interested in how others handle subject matter expert reviews of their taxonomy/thesaurus. What is the process? Is it automated? If so, what software...
Hi Gail, I've never had a "subject matter expert review" of my thesaurus, probably because it was in existence when I came to manage it. Also, it's not focused...
I'm going to be organizing some SME reviews shortly. Here's the process we've developed. Identify and contact your SME(s). Tell them simply what you are ...
Hi, Gail,  Jon's completeness and structure for eliciting feedback are impressive, and taking the time to educate those involved on the what, why, and how...
Jon, Thank you for you input. I understand your process but wonder how such a process can be efficient and productive when the list of terms to be reviewed is...
We used largely the same process at Treasury. Getting everybody on the same page wasn't easy but it gives you buy-in from a broad group. We had to do...
Alice, It was good to hear from you. As you know, I have been exploring this issue for months. My organization is a very diverse research organization and...
Hi Gail, Keep us posted on your SME thesaurus review using your in-house app. It's true, optimal sort is purely a card sorting tool. Just to be clear, I'm not...
Excel is by far my preferred taxonomy tool, but, as you indicate, John, it has severe limitations once you go beyond BTs and NTs. This is what has worked well...
Jon, Thank you for your comments. In regard to your last statement, I do intend to have a face to face "educational" meeting with the SME's to introduce the...
I hope some of you will consider submitting presentation proposals on taxonomy/controlled vocabulary topics for the next conference of the American Society for...
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