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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The UK Government launches semantic web technology.
Tim Berner-Lee and the UK Government releases new
website Data.gov.uk that allows search and browse of all UK
agency data.
Read the Guardian article.
ISO Project 25964 now in review.
This is an international standard development project of ISO
Technical Committee 46 (Information and documentation)
Subcommittee 9 (Identification and description). The assigned
Working Group (WG8) will revise, merge, and extend two
existing international standards:
* ISO 2788 Guidelines for the establishment and
development of monolingual thesauri
* ISO 5964 Guidelines for the establishment and
development of multilingual thesauri
These two intimately linked standards will be updated to
reflect the needs of the 21st century, bearing in mind the
demand for interoperability in a networked society. All of their
existing scope will be retained and refreshed, and the
following additional subjects will be added:
* Guidance on electronic functions and displays
* Functional specification for software to manage thesauri
* Interoperability (mapping) between thesauri and other
types of vocabulary
* Data modeling and formats for exchange of thesaurus data
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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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