Resources: Web Links
Blogs and Wikis
- Synaptica Central - a blog from the Dow Jones metadata and taxonomy team with discussions and news items about vocabularies and taxonomies in general, as well as about the Synaptica thesaurus management system.
- Taxonomy Community of Practice Wikispace - public wiki founded by Seth Earley as a space for the Taxonomy Community to share experiences and case studies, create a document repository, collaborate on best practices, and engage in dialogue.
- Taxonomy Watch - blog moderated by Linda Farmer.
Taxonomies, Controlled Vocabularies, Thesauri and Classification Schemes
As there are already comprehensive lists of controlled vocabularies and other authority files published on the web, we have not listed individual vocabularies here.
- American Society for Indexing List of Online Thesauri and Authority Files.
- Queensland University of Technology List of Classification Schemes.
- Queensland University of Technology List of Thesaurus Sites.
- Taxonomy Warehouse List of Controlled Vocabularies - a comprehensive directory of taxonomies, thesauri, classification schemes, and other authority files, plus information on how to license them. Managed by Dow Jones & Company.
- Vocabulary Bank, controlled vocabularies designed for use in UK education.
General Advice, Glossaries and Resources
- Construction of Controlled Vocabularies: A Primer - tutorial is compiled by Marcia Lei Zeng, a member of the Z39.19 Standard Committee and professor at Kent State University School of Library and Information Science.
- Controlled Vocabularies - Resource pages of the Queensland University of Technology.
- Controlled Vocabularies: A Glosso-Thesaurus - a glossary of terms presented as a thesaurus by Fred Leise, Karl Fast and Mike Steckel.
- Dublin Core Metatdata Initiative (DCMI) Glossary - based on DCMI documents, presentations at DC conferences, and discussions on the DC General listserv.
- Introductory Tutorial on Thesaurus Construction - step by step guidance on constructing a thesaurus by Professor Tim Craven, University of Western Ontario.
- "Metadata? Thesauri? Topic Maps! Making Sense of it all" - an article from Ontopia a commercial company who also provide other publications about topic maps.
- Taxonomies, Categorization, Classification, Categories, and Directories for Searching - page of Search Tools Consulting.
- Taxonomy Guide: Online Resource & Learning Tool - of the Professional Centre, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto. Some sections are restricted to paid subscribers.
- Taxonomy Warehouse - various features about taxonomies and a directory of vocabularies. Managed by Dow Jones & Company.
- TaxoTips - site created by Bob Doyle, Editor-in-chief at CMS Review, to support consulting with enterprises who want to add memography and memetic search (a technique for tagging web pages) to their intranets.
- Topicmap.com - Resources on topic maps by Murray Woodman.
- Willpower Information's Glossary of terms, list of publications on thesaurus construction, and thesaurus principles and practice - resources on the site of Willpower Information, consultants Leonard D. Will and Sheena E. Will.
See also Courses, Events and Past Presentations.
Video and Audio Presentations
- Earley & Associates: Monthly Taxonomy Community of Practice and Bi-Annual Jumpstart Series - archived recordings and slides from presentations, some free (following registration on website) and others available for purchase.
- Synaptica/ProQuest Videos and PowerPoint presentations presented by Paula McCoy (ProQuest) & Daniela Barbosa (Synaptica) at Taxonomy Boot Camp pre-conference workshops, 2008
Standards and Guidelines
- National Information Standards Organization: ANSI/NISO Standard 39.19 - Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies.
Software
- Taxonomy Trifecta - comparative evaluation of taxonomy tools: Term Tree 2000, Multites Pro, and Webchoir TCS-10.
- Willpower Information's list of thesaurus software.
See also Software and Articles.
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