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Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Onsite Workshop: Taxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies
Saturday, October 25, 2008, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Simmons College, One Palace Road Bldg., Boston, Massachusetts
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Taxonomies are becoming popular for organizing information in business knowledge management, enterprise content management systems, and intranets. Are these taxonomies different from literature retrieval thesauri? How does one go about creating a taxonomy? This workshop will provide recommended best practices for how to create terms, relationships, and variants for different kinds of taxonomies or controlled vocabularies, and will also introduce different software tools for doing so.
Whether you need to create a taxonomy to organize information on a web site, classify information in a content management system, establish a controlled vocabulary for a periodical or database indexing project, or simply understand how to use taxonomies better, this workshop will get you on your way.
1. Introduction
- In what various applications taxonomies and thesauri are used
- Definitions of controlled vocabulary, thesaurus, taxonomy, and ontology
- Deciding when categories or alphabetical organization should be dominant
2. Creating & Wording of Terms
- Choosing the preferred term wording and format
- Degree of pre-coordination vs. post-coordination
- Term notes and attributes
3. Non-Preferred Terms
- Types of non-preferred terms
- How many non-preferred terms to create
- Non-preferred terms for named entities
4. Creating Term Relationships
- Broader term / Narrower term relationships
- Associated term relationships
- Specific relationships (for ontologies)
5. Thesaurus Display Options
- Flat format, multilevel hierarchy, top term, and permuted/rotated
6. Hierarchies, Categories, and Facets
- Creating hierarchies
- Categories within controlled vocabularies, including authority files
- Facets and faceted classification
7. Software
- Overview of software for creating taxonomies and thesauri
- Demonstration of MultiTes
- Demonstration of Webchoir TCS-10
- Demonstration of Term Tree 2000
- Freeware of TheW32 (Timothy Craven Freeware) and Protégé ontology editor
- Large scale systems: Synaptica, Wordmap, Data Harmony Thesaurus Master
8. Sources for Terms
- People as sources (owners, taxonomies, subject matter experts, users)
- Content/material as sources
- External reference sources
9. Project process
- Project planning
- Literature retrieval thesaurus project process
- Enterprise taxonomy project process
- Implementation of a controlled vocabulary
- Maintenance of a controlled vocabulary
10. Related topics
- Indexing & controlled vocabularies
- Automated indexing & controlled vocabularies
- Metadata & controlled vocabularies
- Controlled vocabulary/taxonomy governance
- Social tagging/folksonomies
11. Types of work available and marketing
- Full time permanent jobs
- Free-lance work
12. Resources
- Bibliography
- Organizations
- Discussion groups
- Workshops, seminars
- Web sites
Registration
Download the registration form for Simmons GSLIS Continuing Education workshops. (It is OK to use the spring form for the fall workshop.) Fill it out, specifying the session date (October 25) and format (onsite), and mail it with your payment (checks or cash only) for $220 made out to “Simmons College” to:
Kris Liberman, Program Manager
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
The Office of Continuing Education
Simmons College
300 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115-5898
P: 617-521-2803
F: 617-521-3192
gslisce@simmons.edu
If your employer is paying for the workshop, please send in (or fax) your completed registration form with a notation “employer to send payment.”
Continuing Education/Professional Development
All enrolled attendees will receive a Certificate of Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for one unit, which will be mailed to them after the workshop.
Simmons College provides Professional Development Points (PDPs) according to the Massachusetts Department of Education requirements for certification revised as of 7/1/00. Attendees who request PDPs for (re)certification will earn 7 PDPs for this one-day workshop