Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies SIG

Articles

There have been numerous articles published on the topics of taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, thesaurus construction, and also individual thesaurus reveiw articles in the publications of indexing society journals and elsewhere by SIG members.

Articles in Key Words and The Indexer

• List of Key Words articles (quarterly bulletin of the American Society for Indexing)
• List of The Indexer articles (on-line quarterly, peer-reviewed international journal, published by the Society of Indexers on behalf of those bodies subscribing to the International Agreement of Indexing Societies)

Additional Articles by SIG Members Published Elsewhere

• Fred Leise et al, Boxes and Arrows online series on Controlled Vocabularies (2002-03):
  • All about facets & controlled vocabularies
  • What is a controlled vocabulary?
  • Creating a controlled vocabulary
  • Synonym rings and authority files
  • Controlled vocabularies: A glosso-thesaurus

Other bibliographies of articles:

• Taxonnomy Strategies' (Joseph Busch and Ron Daniel) bibliography
• William Denton's bibliography of faceted classification systems