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Controlled Vocabularies, Taxonomies, Metadata, and more
IA Summer InstituteJune 12-16 2006
Gary CarlsonChief Taxonomist
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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)
