Controlled Vocabularies, Taxonomies, Metadata, and more IA Summer Institute June 12-16 2006 Gary...

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Controlled Vocabularies, Taxonomies, Metadata, and more IA Summer Institute June 12-16 2006 Gary Carlson Chief Taxonomist [email protected]
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Controlled Vocabularies, Taxonomies, Metadata, and more

IA Summer InstituteJune 12-16 2006

Gary CarlsonChief Taxonomist

[email protected]

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WHAT?

Simple Complex

Synonym Rings

Authority Files

ThesauriClassification Schemes

Equivalence Hierarchical Associative

(Vocabularies)

(Relationships)

Folksonomies Ontologies

Taxonomies

FromRosenfeld, L. & P. Morville. (2002). Chapter 9, “Thesauri, Controlled Vocabularies, and Metadata” in Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. 2nd ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly. (p. 176-208).

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Connecting people to information requires a common language or perspective (semantics)

Information stored in or about DocumentsImagesPeopleProductsPlaces…

Connecting people to information requires a common language or perspective (semantics)

Information stored in or about DocumentsImagesPeopleProductsPlaces…

So What?

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UsageRe-Usable Objects

Capture a particular perspective

Consistency

Ease of Access

Precision

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They are everywhere

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Why

Connect people to productsPeople to peopleConsistent information retrievalAccountability

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Civilizations in decline are consistently characterized by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.

Arnold Toynbee, historian(1889-1975)

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