Taxonomy and Thesaurus Creation

Date: April 30 2008

Location: Denver, Colorado, USA

Website: http://www.asindexing.org/site/conferences/conf2008/index.shtml

About This Event

Taxonomies and thesauri are structured sets of terms used for indexing or categorizing content. They are used in a wide variety of applications ranging from periodical indexing, image archive management, enterprise content management, commercial product categorization, online news service interfaces, and web site information architecture. There is a growing demand for people who can create and manage taxonomies.

This one-day workshop will provide enough basics and some of the practice needed to get started creating taxonomies and thesauri. Short practical exercises will be interspersed among many of the topics. This workshop also includes demonstrations of affordable taxonomy thesaurus software packages.

Workshop Outline

1. Introduction: applications, skills, and decisions
2. Types and definitions taxonomies
3. Creating term relationships (broader/narrower, related)
4. Wording of terms and their variants
5. Facets and categories of taxonomies
6. Sources for terms
7. Software overview and demonstrations
8. Project process
9. Related topics of social tagging, auto-categorization, metadata standards, taxonomy governance and maintenance
10. Types of work available and marketing
11. Resources

Presented by Heather Hedden, Information Taxonomist at Viziant Corporation, taxonomies online workshop instructor at Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science Continuing Education Program, and manager of the Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies Special Interest Group.

A pre-conference workshop in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Society of Indexers. Conference registration is not required.

Warwick Hotel, 1776 Grant Street, Denver, Colorado.
7:00 am - 8:00 am: Continental breakfast
8:00 am - 5:00 pm: Workshop

Fees:
ASI/ISC member
Before April 9: $245; After April 9: $295

Nonmember
Before April 9: $295; After April 9: $395

Details at: www.hedden-information.com/taxonomy-workshop.htm

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http://www.asindexing.org/site/conferences/conf2008/index.shtml

Tags

categorization, classificiation, content management, controlled vocabularies, controlled vocabulary, indexing, tagging, taxonomies, taxonomy workshop, thesauri, thesaurus