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...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Oct 8, 2008 5:09 pm
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...
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Paula Mccoy
prm.mccoy
Oct 8, 2008 11:07 pm
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...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Oct 16, 2008 5:53 pm
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...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Oct 24, 2008 12:48 pm
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...
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bromley_jennifer
bromley_jenn...
Oct 27, 2008 5:49 pm
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...
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carolreed.bluestem
carolreed.bl...
Nov 12, 2008 6:42 pm
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...
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Rebecca Linford
rebelina2002
Nov 12, 2008 9:12 pm
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...
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nadinerae@...
indextheworld
Nov 12, 2008 9:29 pm
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,...
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Fred Leise
fredleise
Nov 13, 2008 3:00 pm
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 ...
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Rebecca Linford
rebelina2002
Nov 13, 2008 4:13 pm
... 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...
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Suzi Kaplan
sewk
Nov 13, 2008 6:44 pm
Smashing, Rebecca. It's lean, clean and ready to do business. Kudos and many thanks. Suzi ... From: Rebecca Linford [mailto:rl@...] Sent:...
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Seth Earley
seth_earley
Nov 28, 2008 10:52 pm
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...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Dec 12, 2008 6:06 pm
The February session of the online workshop "Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies" offered through the Continuing Education program of Simmons College Graduate...
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Seth Earley
seth_earley
Jan 5, 2009 9:05 pm
Hi there, FYI, our January 7th call on taxonomy issues will discuss issues and limitations of applying taxonomies in MOSS. Full session description at:...
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Seth Earley
seth_earley
Jan 30, 2009 12:57 am
(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. ...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Feb 5, 2009 8:21 pm
The issue of posting job announcements has come up (on another discussion group: Taxonomy Community of Practice), and it's been decided to create a new group...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Feb 10, 2009 2:23 pm
There is still space available, but last fall's workshop filled up... "Taxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies" Saturday, March 28, 2009, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00...
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Rebecca Linford
rebelina2002
Feb 10, 2009 2:29 pm
Hi, The page of useful web links in the resources section of the SIG website has been organised into sections - please see: ...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Feb 11, 2009 1:59 pm
The Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies Special Interest Group of the American Society for Indexing (ASI) now has a kind of sub-account of the ASI's bank...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Feb 12, 2009 8:24 pm
This year's American Society for Indexing (ASI) conference in Portland, Oregon, has several sessions on taxonomies. *Pre-conference workshop: **Building...
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Dorothy Tuma
dorothyanntuma
Feb 14, 2009 7:06 pm
Hello,I am a new member and wanted to introduce myself. I am currently the Search Vocabulary Team Lead at Getty Images in Seattle, so I often feel that...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Feb 27, 2009 3:41 pm
Hello ASI Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies SIG members, One of the SIG-related events at the ASI national conference in Portland is to have the leader of...
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carolreed.bluestem
carolreed.bl...
Feb 28, 2009 5:44 am
I'm curious whether anyone has heard of ebook publishers enhancing search with thesauri. I'm guessing that while there will be some demand for embedded indexes...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Mar 1, 2009 3:46 am
You may or may not have noticed that the ASI web site has page of thesauri online, recently renamed: Online Thesauri and Authority Files. ...
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Paula Mccoy
prm.mccoy
Mar 1, 2009 6:40 pm
Good job getting that updated, Heather. I think I found broken links there in the past. I'll see if I have any thesauri bookmarked at work that might fit the...
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margotdiltz
Mar 2, 2009 7:26 pm
Here's a thesaurus to add the website list: http://agclass.nal.usda.gov/agt.shtml This is the thesaurus prepared by the USDA Library. Margot Cengage Learning...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Mar 2, 2009 7:43 pm
Hi Margot, Yes, this is a good thesaurus. In fact, I recently ran across it and thought it would be good one to add. I really overburdened the ASI webmaster...
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Rebecca Allen
rebecca.allen12
Mar 3, 2009 4:29 pm
Invitation Please join us for our monthly Taxonomy Community of Practice Call. This month's topic is Auto Tagging Requirements & Advances. Date: Wednesday,...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Mar 8, 2009 1:08 am
Hi Margot, This thesaurus link has been added now at http://www.asindexing.org/site/thesonet.shtml It's at the bottom of the page (alphabetically under U). ...
