About Taxonomy Society :
Finding the right semantic specialists to best represent
your organization’s culture, product, and community is
one of the most important steps in realizing the full
potential of a digital asset management strategy.
Taxonomy Society is a taxonomy of taxonomists and
knowledge/information architects, word czars and
ontologists.
By using a simple faceted classification, Taxonomy
Society provides a means to discover the right expert to
support your business needs.
Participating in Taxonomy Society is free.Supporting
professionals in the field, Taxonomy Society provides a
network of experts that share intelligence and
experience through
- online presentations
- articles & white papers
- workshops
- podcasts
- audio lectures
- video
Partnerships with consulting firms, libraries,
universities and archives provide a unique repository of
knowledge on the subject of managing and
maintaining digital assets through semantic
technologies.
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Jayne Dutra wins award.July 2008
Dr. Charles Elachi, the Director of JPL Jayne Dutra, and Ed Weiler, JPL NASA Headquarters Sponsor (and
former Project Manager of the Hubble Telescope)
Jayne Dutra, Lead Information Architect for NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (US).,received the award for "Excellence in Technical
Leadership in the Development of the NASA Taxonomy".
Starting out as Technical Manager and Enterprise Information
Architect at JPL eleven years ago, Jayne Dutra began constructing her
taxonomy with the goal of federating vocabularies across NASA for
better information interchange.
Celebrating its 50th anniversary, NASA, the leading research and
aerospace exploration agency, including their lesser known, but
equally influential non-aerospace technological innovations within the
private sector, is responsible for much of the world's scientific
knowledge. The amount of research, documentation, images, and
security reports generated by the agency is staggering. Think of the
MARS Rover, or the first walk on the moon and you begin to
understand the scale of their information. Their Locations facet in
their taxonomy is literally, other-wordly.
Through the use of the NASA taxonomy, information is made available
to the engineers and scientists through a web interface in their
enterprise portal. By providing access and the ability to reference
material across multiple repositories such as legacy data of planetary
explorations to vehicle safety checks has proved to be mission
critical.
She is now responsible for generating a multi-year Enterprise
Information Architecture Road Map with strategic goals and
associated tasks that include integrating query search and faceted
browsing using Semantic Web technologies.
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What’s a taxonomy?
A taxonomy is a list of terms in a
classification structure.
Although the term “taxonomy” is
used rather indiscriminately
lately to describe any sort of
classification, a formal
taxonomy is typically expressed
in a hierarchical structure
(parent/child) which
emphasizes context. It
organizes concepts, products,
functions, or objects to make
them easier to find, identify, and
study.
more on taxonomy
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