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The Taxobook - Principles and Practices of Building Taxonomies, Part 2 of a 3-Part Series (Paperback)
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The Taxobook - Principles and Practices of Building Taxonomies, Part 2 of a 3-Part Series (Paperback)
Series: Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
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This book outlines the basic principles of creation and maintenance
of taxonomies and thesauri. It also provides step by step
instructions for building a taxonomy or thesaurus and discusses the
various ways to get started on a taxonomy construction project.
Often, the first step is to get management and budgetary approval,
so I start this book with a discussion of reasons to embark on the
taxonomy journey. From there I move on to a discussion of metadata
and how taxonomies and metadata are related, and then consider how,
where, and why taxonomies are used. Information architecture has
its cornerstone in taxonomies and metadata. While a good discussion
of information architecture is beyond the scope of this work, I do
provide a brief discussion of the interrelationships among
taxonomies, metadata, and information architecture. Moving on to
the central focus of this book, I introduce the basics of
taxonomies, including a definition of vocabulary control and why it
is so important, how indexing and tagging relate to taxonomies, a
few of the types of tagging, and a definition and discussion of
post- and pre-coordinate indexing. After that I present the concept
of a hierarchical structure for vocabularies and discuss the
differences among various kinds of controlled vocabularies, such as
taxonomies, thesauri, authority files, and ontologies. Once you
have a green light for your project, what is the next step? Here I
present a few options for the first phase of taxonomy construction
and then a more detailed discussion of metadata and markup
languages. I believe that it is important to understand the markup
languages (SGML and XML specifically, and HTML to a lesser extent)
in relation to information structure, and how taxonomies and
metadata feed into that structure. After that, I present the steps
required to build a taxonomy, from defining the focus, collecting
and organizing terms, analyzing your vocabulary for even coverage
over subject areas, filling in gaps, creating relationships between
terms, and applying those terms to your content. Here I offer a
cautionary note: don't believe that your taxonomy is "done!"
Regular, scheduled maintenance is an important-critical,
really-component of taxonomy construction projects. After you've
worked through the steps in this book, you will be ready to move on
to integrating your taxonomy into the workflow of your
organization. This is covered in Book 3 of this series. Table of
Contents: List of Figures / Preface / Acknowledgments / Building a
Case for Building a Taxonomy / Taxonomy Basics / Getting Started /
Terms: The Building Blocks of a Taxonomy / Building the Structure
of Your Taxonomy / Evaluation and Maintenance / Standards and
Taxonomies / Glossary / End Notes / Author Biography
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