Taxonomies have been fundamental to organizing knowledge and information for centuries. Now they are the backbone of well organized information systems and the lynchpin of findability in an online world. This book is the first taxonomy primer to present how to design, create, apply and maintain structured vocabularies, including taxonomy, thesauri, ontology and folksonomy, specifically for digital information. This comprehensive and accessible guide explains how to make sure both content creators and content consumers are speaking the same language. (Second Edition)
Author(s): Darin L. Stewart
Edition: 2
Publisher: Mokita Press
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 242
1. Findability 1
Infoglut 4
The Problem with Search 6
Teleporting and Orienteering 12
2. Metadata 23
Types of Metadata 28
Descriptive Metadata 28
Administrative Metadata 30
Structural Metadata 31
Metadata Schemas 32
Where Do I Put It? 36
Where Does It Come From? 39
Metadata and Authority Control 41
3. Taxonomy 45
Linnaean Taxonomy 48
Controlled Vocabularies 51
Faceted Classification 59
4. Preparations 67
The Taxonomy Development Cycle 70
Research 72
Performing a Content Audit 76
Creating a Governance Document 83
5. Terms 89
Internal Term Sources 90
Intranets and Websites 92
External Term Sources 95
Existing Taxonomies 98
Refining Terms 99
Basic Hygiene 99
Compound and Precoordinated Terms 107
Disambiguation 110
6. Structure 115
Card Sorting 116
Categories and Facets 122
7. Interoperability 135
Basic XML Concepts 137
Representing Hierarchy 140
Fear of Baggage Handling 144
XSLT 146
Zthes 152
8. Ontology 159
What Is An Ontology? 160
Class Hierarchy, Slots and Facets 162
Resource Description Framework 168
RDF/XML 176
RDF Schema 180
Web Ontology Language (OWL) 181
9. Folksonomy 185
Tagging 186
Folksonomy 191
Tag Clouds 194
Pace Layering 202
Glossary 205
Notes 219
Index 227
