Taxonomies have become more widely-understood and used in the last decade as organisations seek to manage and exploit their information. The rise in understanding of the potential of semantic models has also led to an increase in demand for controlled vocabularies and ontology models. While education in classification and categorisation is becoming more and more mature, it does not necessarily prepare taxonomists for the everyday realities of working with stakeholders, sponsors and systems so that their taxonomies remain useful and relevant.

Taxonomies: Practical Approaches to Developing and Managing Vocabularies for Digital Information is a curated anthology of expert-contributed chapters and case studies that cover the wide range of ways in which taxonomies are used in digital applications including the web, enterprise systems and libraries. The book brings together experts from a range of disciplines to provide realworld insights on how to build and implement a taxonomy in an organisation. The book will cover everything a working taxonomist - whether they?re an inhouse resource or a consultant - needs to consider, including business buy-in; working on a project team; choosing software; governance and maintenance and the wider societal dimensions of choosing categories and terminology.

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Heather Hedden Introduction by Helen Lippell Part 1: Getting Started 1. Business Buy-in and Scoping 2. Choosing Taxonomy Software Part 2: Building Taxonomies 3. Taxonomy Structuring and Scaling: A Standardised Approach 4. The Diversity of Terms: Respecting Culture and Avoiding Bias 5. Relationships, Hierarchies and Semantics 6. User Testing and Validation 7. Taxonomy and Vocabulary Interoperability 8. Everything that Will Go Wrong in your Taxonomy Project Part 3: Applications 9. Enterprise Search 10. Taxonomy and Digital Asset Management 11. Powering Structured Content with Taxonomies 12. Information Architecture and E-commerce Part 4: Business Adoption 13. Implementing Taxonomies and Metadata: Lessons from a Busy Newsroom 14. Taxonomy Governance 15. Taxonomy Maintenance 16. The Taxonomist's Role in a Development Team Appendix A: Metadata Template to Capture Taxonomy Term Diversity Appendix B: Semantics: Some Basic Ontological Principles Appendix C: Metadata Model Template Glossary

Taxonomies

Reference works, dictionaries

Library and information science in general

Library and information management

Content and format exploration

Conservation and storage

Theory of computing, computing in general

Management, corporate management