choose your words wisely: a crash course in taxonomy development (marac/nea 2015 joint meeting; s.4)...
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Choose your words wisely
Kathryn gronsbell, AVPreserve MARAC/NEA Boston | March 20, 2015
a crash course in taxonomy development
What is a TAXONOMY & how DO
you build it?
GROUP ACTIVITY
“A collection of controlled vocabulary terms organized into a hierarchical structure”
NATIONAL INFORMATION STANDARDS ORGANIZATION
By I-5 Design and Manufacture from http://www.flickr.com/photos/i5design/6075050600/
What’s the point?
• Indexing support Consistency of labeling, tagging, efficiency, disambiguate terms
• Retrieval support Improve search results
• Organization & navigation support Guide user navigation
WORLD WAR 1
GREAT WAR
FIRST WORLD WAR
WORLD WAR ONE
WORLD WAR, 1914-1918
WWI
WORLD WAR, 1914-1918
Worldcat.org
WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF TAXONOMIES?
TERM LISTS CLASSIFICATIONS/ CATEGORIES
RELATIONSHIP LISTS
simple complex
examples: !Controlled vocabularies !Synonyms !Authority files (named entities)
examples: !
Hierarchical taxonomy
!Poly-hierarchical
taxonomy !
Faceted taxonomy
!
examples: !
Thesauri !
Ontologies !!
www.taxonomies-sig.org
Phases of development
1Research
🔍
•TAXONOMISTS
•INDEXERS OR TAGGERS
•END USERS
2STRategy
📰
Taxonomies are technology agnostic*
CORE TEAM • Taxonomists: Create terms, interpret existing vocabularies
• Subject-area specialist: Test & respond to terms and methodologies
• Project lead: Manage project and engage participants
ADVISORS • Sponsor: Leadership-level participants
• Reviewers: General review
3Design
📾
BROAD TERM
NARROW TERM
NARROWER TERM
level0
1
2
4Development
implementation&
📄👥
select term
ADD TO CONCEPT
TEST
=v.1
💻
5Administration
∞
PHASE POSSIBLE DELIVERABLES
Research Data dump, existing vocabularies
Strategy Card sorting, governance skeleton
Design Draft concepts and sample terms
Development/Implementation Working draft (v.1)
Administration Governance document, v.1.1/v.2….
💡
👤*
• SKOS - Simple Knowledge Organization System!• OWL - Web Ontology Language!• Building Enterprise Taxonomies, Darin L. Stewart (2011)!• The Accidental Taxonomist, Heather Hedden (2010)
‘concepts extracted from the content’
card sorting
MARAC and NEA !decide to create a
shared repository for the!2015 Joint Conference
card
sort
ing
1. Sort provided terms into piles
2. Refer to handout
3. when you’re done sorting
name that concept
1. Write a 1-2 word label per pile
2. Can’t? Re-sort until you can!
