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Taxonomies: Practical Approaches to Developing and Managing Vocabularies for Digital Information book cover

1st Edition

Taxonomies Practical Approaches to Developing and Managing Vocabularies for Digital Information

Edited By Helen Lippell Copyright 2022
224 Pages
by Facet Publishing

224 Pages
by Facet Publishing

Taxonomies have become more widely-understood and used in the last decade as organisations seek to manage and exploit their information. The rise in understanding of the potential of semantic models has also led to an increase in demand for controlled vocabularies and ontology models. While education in classification and categorisation is becoming more and more mature, it does not necessarily... Read more

Foreword

Heather Hedden

Introduction

Helen Lippell

Part 1: Getting Started

1. Business Buy-in and Scoping

Maura Moran

2. Choosing Taxonomy Software

Joyce van Aalten

Part 2: Building Taxonomies

3. Taxonomy Structuring and Scaling: A Standardised Approach

Jonathan Engel

4. The Diversity of Terms: Respecting Culture and Avoiding Bias

Bharat Dayal Sharma

5. Relationships, Hierarchies and Semantics

Bob Kasenchak

6. User Testing and Validation

Tom Alexander

7. Taxonomy and Vocabulary Interoperability

Yonah Levenson

8. Everything that Will Go Wrong in your Taxonomy Project

Ed Vald

Part 3: Applications

9. Enterprise Search

Michele Jenkins

10. Taxonomy and Digital Asset Management

Sara James and Jeremy Bright

11. Powering Structured Content with Taxonomies

Rahel Anne Bailie

12. Information Architecture and E-commerce

Margaret Hanley

Part 4: Business Adoption

13. Implementing Taxonomies and Metadata: Lessons from a Busy Newsroom

Annette Feldman

14. Taxonomy Governance

Cynthia Knowles

15. Taxonomy Maintenance

Helen Challinor

16. The Taxonomist's Role in a Development Team

Jo Kent

Appendix A: Metadata Template to Capture Taxonomy Term Diversity

Bharat Dayal Sharma

Appendix B: Semantics: Some Basic Ontological Principles

Bob Kasenchak

Appendix C: Metadata Model Template

Yonah Levenson

Glossary

Bob Kasenchak and Helen Lippell

Biography

Helen Lippell is an independent information professional and consultant who focuses on helping organisations organise their content and data. She designs information architectures, metadata schemas, ontologies, taxonomies and semantic models to help companies fully exploit the value of their "stuff". Helen has worked for a wide range of clients in different sectors, including the BBC, Metropolitan Police and Pearson and is a regular speaker on taxonomies, ontologies and other knowledge model frameworks.

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