The Complexity of Knowledge Organization
If you didn’t make it to the Innovations in Knowledge Organisation (IKO) conference in Singapore last month, don’t worry. The conference materials and a post-conference […]
Everything Goes Every Place It Fits
The traditional taxonomy is monohierarchical – there is one and only one place for every term. This is only sensible for many purposes; no […]
Time for Camp
Taxonomies can be powerful tools when developed properly and by professionals. This year’s Taxonomy Boot Camp is about highlighting taxonomy’s many faces and sharing […]
Expressing Culture in Coffee Classification
It is always interesting to me when I find taxonomies of interesting and unusual topics. Even if they aren’t true taxonomies, they are typically […]
The Thesaurus as a Domain Model in the Modern World
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Nowadays, taxonomies and thesauri are used largely for web navigation and for information search and retrieval. It wasn’t always that way. In fact, […]
Where to Start?
The Library of Congress started taking steps in 2010 toward preserving the nation’s increasingly digital heritage — by acquiring Twitter’s entire archive of tweets […]
Director of Taxonomy Needed
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with […]