Library Cataloging
Why Dewey's Decimal System is prejudiced appears in the latest JOHO, Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization. This is a personal newsletter from David Weinberger. (Thanks to the commenter for clearing up the person responsible.) He is the author of The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual and Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web
- Taxonomies
Overcoming Information Overload by Jeff Phillips and Christine Klima, appears in the May issue of Transform Magazine.Taxonomies organize your information for more efficient retrieval and better topic insight. Here's how to choose the best approach...
- Xml
Can XML Drive Taxonomies and Categorization? by Bill Trippe.Content management technology is almost de rigueur now in medium and large organizations, and along with it the problems of information overload. As a result, taxonomy development is now viewed...
- Papers
Some articles in the latest Online Information Review v. 27, no. 4.Meta-tag: a means to control the process of Web indexing by Dariush Alimohammadi Search engines are used to locate information on the Web, but they cannot always adequately meet the information...
- Thesauri
Taxonomy Warehouse is a free service (free to users and free to vocabulary publishers) provided by Synapse, the Knowledge Link Corporation for the benefit of the information and knowledge management community.The Warehouse aims to provide a comprehensive...
- Taxonomy
Another controlled vocabulary, the EDUCAUSE Taxonomy."The EDUCAUSE Taxonomy, a hierarchical subject listing of over 450 terms, helps you more easily explore topics and find specific documents in the association?s extensive collection of online information...
Library Cataloging
Classification
Why Dewey's Decimal System is prejudiced appears in the latest JOHO, Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization. This is a personal newsletter from David Weinberger. (Thanks to the commenter for clearing up the person responsible.) He is the author of The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual and Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web
This highlights two ways our taxonomies are changing now that we're shaking off the physical and moving to the electronic. First, the physical world is so hard to change that a taxonomy that's offensive in its inherent values - and all taxonomies have values baked into them - may be worth maintaining simply because no taxonomy is worse than an offensive taxonomy. Second, the most important job of the new generation of librarians is to build into information objects sufficient metadata that any organization can create its own taxonomy. Taxonomies are tools, so there's no such thing as the One Right Taxonomy, just as can-openers aren't more right than asphalt spreaders. By building in sufficient metadata - no easy task - diverse groups now and forever can build taxonomies that suit their needs.Folks other than librarians are considering the organization of information.
- Taxonomies
Overcoming Information Overload by Jeff Phillips and Christine Klima, appears in the May issue of Transform Magazine.Taxonomies organize your information for more efficient retrieval and better topic insight. Here's how to choose the best approach...
- Xml
Can XML Drive Taxonomies and Categorization? by Bill Trippe.Content management technology is almost de rigueur now in medium and large organizations, and along with it the problems of information overload. As a result, taxonomy development is now viewed...
- Papers
Some articles in the latest Online Information Review v. 27, no. 4.Meta-tag: a means to control the process of Web indexing by Dariush Alimohammadi Search engines are used to locate information on the Web, but they cannot always adequately meet the information...
- Thesauri
Taxonomy Warehouse is a free service (free to users and free to vocabulary publishers) provided by Synapse, the Knowledge Link Corporation for the benefit of the information and knowledge management community.The Warehouse aims to provide a comprehensive...
- Taxonomy
Another controlled vocabulary, the EDUCAUSE Taxonomy."The EDUCAUSE Taxonomy, a hierarchical subject listing of over 450 terms, helps you more easily explore topics and find specific documents in the association?s extensive collection of online information...