Home

About

What We Do

Who We Are

Resources

Articles

Events

Contact

 Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies SIG, a Special Interest Group of the American Society for Indexing

Resources: Books

Books on taxonomies, thesauri, and controlled vocablaries. Books on related subjects, such as information architecture, are not listed.

  • Aitchison, J., Gilchrist, A. & Bawden, D. (2000) Thesaurus construction and use: a practical manual (4th ed.). Chicago, IL, USA: Fitzroy Dearborn.
  • ANSI/NISO Z39.19 (2005) Guidelines for construction, format, and management of monolingual controlled vocabularies (PDF).
  • Broughton, Vanda. (2006) Essential thesaurus construction. London: Facet Publishing.
  • Jagerman, Evert J. (2006) Creating, maintaining and applying quality taxonomies. Available online: http://www.lulu.com/content/505997.
  • Lambe, Patrick. (2007) Organising knowledge: taxonomies, knowledge and organisational effectiveness. Oxford, England: Chandos Publishing.
  • Stewart, Darin L. (2008) Bulding enterprise taxonomies. Portland, OR, USA: Mokita Press.