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...
Join us for our next taxonomy community of practice call: Topic: Search Analytics Case Studies Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008 Time: 1 - 2 p.m. Eastern ...
If you are interested contact Kamal Aggarwal directly. He had phoned me, seeing my resume on Monster.com, but I cannot leave my family for that length of time....
A new full-day workshop through the continuing education program of Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science: "Taxonomies and...
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Good morning, I am new to the list. I am trained as a librarian. I focused on cataloging and indexing in library school and worked as a medical cataloger...
I blush to admit it, but I use Post-it notes arranged on a table (or the floor or the wall, if it's a big vocabulary). YMMV, but I find if I start putting...
Hi Caitlin, I'm not sure what you mean by "visualize" the relationships between terms. Do you mean producing some graphical chart-like output of the terms and...
Hi Caitlin, I maintain an 11,000-term controlled vocabulary that is heavy with business terms. I'm used to understanding the relationships among terms...
Hi all, I'd like to see this discussion forum address issues of obtaining and performing contract taxonomy work. As an ASI SIG, we have a good number of...
For anyone wishing to get started in freelance taxonomy work, I noticed this opportunity posted yesterday on an information school job board. It's low paying...
Hi, my name is Jennifer Lai Bromley, and I'm an MSLIS student at Syracuse. I've joined this group to see if working with taxonomies would be a realistic career...
Hi, I'm a freelance indexer and technical writer, and I've been interested in taxonomy for some time. I'm currently taking Heather's Taxonomy & CV workshop...
I'm pleased to announce the release of a new design on the website for the Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies SIG: http://www.taxonomies-sig.org/ Various...
Rebecca, The site looks wonderful and functions beautifully. Neat, clean, well-organized. Thank you so much for doing this for us! Nadine Nadine-Rae Leavell,...
Rebecca, Great job. I like the nice, clean look. Thanks for your hard work on the website. One minor thing I noticed was that on the contact page there is a ...
... Thank you for the positive feedback :-). I'm pleased to be able to help. ... Now fixed - I'd forgotten to copy over a javascript file when I published the...
Hi there, Earley & Associates is entering our fourth year of monthly conference calls on topics of interest to the IA/Search/Content and Digital Asset...
The February session of the online workshop "Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies" offered through the Continuing Education program of Simmons College Graduate...
Hi there, FYI, our January 7th call on taxonomy issues will discuss issues and limitations of applying taxonomies in MOSS. Full session description at:...
(Sorry for cross posts...) Hi there, This is going to be a terrific session. We will be hearing from Austin Govella, Stephanie Lemieux and Rich Tomlinson. ...
