Upcoming Events 2024
“Tips for Taxonomy Hierarchies“
Description: Hierarchies are a basic structure of taxonomies, and while their design is often intuitive, there are issues and complications which skilled taxonomists should address. Beginners often confuse hierarchical taxonomies with classification systems, but they are not the same. Thesaurus standards for hierarchical relationships are important, but sometimes taxonomies may deviate from the thesaurus standard. This session also addresses common errors of context-based narrower concepts, too much granularity, single narrower concepts, and lack of hierarchical integrity throughout a tree. Unbalanced or insufficient hierarchy and polyhierarchy are also discussed. Finally, the connection between hierarchies and facets will be addressed. Examples will be shown throughout.
Date: Wednesday, October 9, 16:00 – 16:45 BST; 11:00 -11:45 am EDT
Format: Live web conference (Zoom) with Q&A time
Organizer: Taxonomy Boot Camp London
Registration: £95 for the 3-hour event.
“Taxonomies to Ontologies: How, When and Why to Connect and/or Extend“
Semantic Data 2024: Taxonomy, Ontology, and Knowledge Graphs
Description: Taxonomies and ontologies each have their own distinctive benefits. However, uses often overlap, especially when the goals are improved information/data findability, analysis, and linking. Fortunately, most currently used taxonomies and ontologies are built on the same basic data model standard – the RDF (Resource Description Framework). Consequently whether or not taxonomies and ontologies are extended in accordance with other standards they can still easily be connected in the same implementation or wider project. While the technology is not a challenge, what is still needed is a more comprehensive understanding by stakeholders (including subject matter experts) on how, conceptually, to connect taxonomies and ontologies and to extend a taxonomy to have ontology features.
Date: October 23
Location: New York Hilton Midtown Hotel, New York, NY
Format: in-person
Organizer: Henry Stewart Events
Registration: Save $300 by June 28 early registration
“Building Taxonomies to Leverage Content“ half-day workshop
Description: To make the most of content, the right content needs to be found by or delivered to the right people at the right time. Taxonomies are key to this process, connecting users to content by bringing to together the terms of the users with the terms in the content. Thus, taxonomies need to be custom built with input from the users and from the content, in a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches. This workshop discusses methods and best practices for building taxonomies, whether for marketing content, technical content, or internal enterprise content. Methods include workshops, interviews, content analysis, and text extraction. Best practices include following standards for hierarchical relationships, using suitable labels and synonyms for taxonomy concepts, and using the right taxonomy structures. The workshop includes interactive exercises of hierarchical relationship and alternative label creation.
Date: October 27
Location: Portland Hilton Downtown, Portland, Oregon
Format: in-person
Organizer: LavaCon Content Strategy Conference
Registration: Register by June 30 for $400 conference discount (Workshop is only $200 more)
Use discount code #SpeakerLC24 for an additional $200 off.
“The Complete Guide To Sourcing Terms”
Description: Whether building a new or revising an existing taxonomy, there are many possible sources for your taxonomy’s terms (concepts and labels). Suggestions from users are important, but there are multiple ways to get user input, some more effective than others. Content analysis is a great tool, but the extent to which it is manual or automated can vary. Learn how to utilize search logs, uncontrolled keywords, automatically extracted terms and leveraging AI and LLM methods. How to evaluate legacy controlled vocabularies, metadata terms, and glossaries will be addressed.
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 10:45 – 11:15 am.
Location: JW Marriott Washington DC
Format: in-person
Organizer: KMWorld – Taxonomy Boot Camp
Registration: Register by October 18 for $200 discount
Book Sale and Signing Events
Heather Hedden signs copies of The Accidental Taxonomist, offered for sale at a conference discount at many of the conferences at which she speaks. Book discounts are also sometimes offered for online orders associated with conferences.