Articles on Controlled
Vocabularies, and Classification Systems
•Looking
for Metadata in All the Wrong Places: Why a controlled vocabulary
or thesaurus is in your future.
•Cuisinarts,
E-Commerce, and ... Controlled Vocabularies, from Dr. Dobbs Journal
•Christine Wodtke explains about "Using
controlled vocabularies to improve findability" in this tutorial on
Digital Web magazine.
•A list of the terms
used to categorize most of the records in the Creativity Based Information
Resources Database at Buffalo State College, including a PDF
you can download.
•An overview of the Library
of Congress Subject Headings from Buffalo State.
•A two level hierarchy (9 top level subject areas) used for research
by subject matter at Kansas
University.
•Prof. Tim Craven's (University of Western Ontario) online module to teach you the basics of constructing
an information retrieval thesaurus.
•Guidance
on building and using a Thesaurus from Queensland
University of Technology.
•Lists of links to other Thesauri
and Controlled Vocabularies from Queensland
University of Technology.
•The Gateway to Educational Materials, and their Controlled
Vocabularies used for education.
•A PDF with a discussion of Free Text vs. Controlled
Vocabulary systems from Lebanon Valley College. And another from Washington
State University.
•ASPP, American Society of
Picture Professionals has some resources for those devising a method to file
and retrieve images.
•The CENDI
presentation archive has a number of media files (Powerpoint and PDF's)
regarding the use of controlled vocabularies and the internet. CENDI is is
an
interagency working group of senior Scientific and Technical Information Managers
from nine U.S. Federal Agencies. There is also a page regarding Taxonomies,
Terminologies, and controlled vocabularies including their CENDI
Science Terminology Locator.
•"All
About Facets and Controlled Vocabularies" is an introduction to a
series of four articles by Karl Fast, Fred Leise and Mike Steckel on the Boxes
and Arrows website.
•"What
is a Controlled Vocabulary" in another article by Fast, Leise and Steckel,
which discusses
the
concept
of
what
a
Controlled
Vocabulary is, and how it is used.
•"Creating
a Controlled Vocabulary" is another article by by Leise,
Fast and Steckel that describes a process for building your own controlled vocabulary
(CV). Rather than the "what, this
article focuses on the “how”including a process for creating any
kind of controlled vocabulary and introduces the concept of facets.
•The blog entry "Build
Digital Asset Catalogues That Reflect The Needs Of Your
Business" touches on a number of issues that emerge when employees
are asked
to take on the management of a controlled vocabulary and the application of
keywords, in
addition
to
their
regular duties.
• The article titled "Designing
a Controlled Vocabulary for use with
Digital Asset Libraries" gives an overview of the topic, touching
on structure and depth of controlled vocabularies.
•Barbara H. Kwasnik, discusses "The Role of Classification in Knowledge Representation
and Discovery" in this journal article.
• Michael Buckland, from the University
of California makes a case for "Vocabulary As A Central Concept In Library And
Information
Science."
Keywording
•Real world examples of key
wording in action, shows a wide variety of associated pictures with key
words.
•This basic key word document from the Picture Agency Council of America (PACA)
covers a lot of information in two pages, but is unfortunately no longer available.
•"Tagging
and
Why
It
Matters" an essay from David Weinberger, author of "Everything
is Miscellaneous" discusses how tagging empowers readers
and has social and business benefits.
The Mechanics
of Keywording, (PDF) as related by Janet Dunham & Bob Smith at a
North American Nature Photography Association breakout session in 2009.
•See and hear Karsten Risseeuw's screencast of a presentation on "Multilingual
Contextual Keywording" where he describes an approach they have used
in
the
development
of
their KIM keywording solution.
•
"Can
the Inmates Help Run the Asylum?" looks at user-generated tagging
within the context of a research library.
• Sarah Saunders
of Electric Lane writes about effective keywording in the Word
Up... article in the British
Journal of Photography.
Metadata
•Controlled vocabulary considered as Metadata
for subject searching, .
•Learn about the concept of "Crosswalks" in Introduction to Metadata:
Pathways to Digital Information from
the Getty
Museum website.
•Organizing Information: Metadata
and Controlled Vocabularies, from UC Berkley.
•A Metadata
Glossary - Victor Lombardi explains the differences between taxomonies,
ontologies and controlled vocabularies.
•Woody Pidcock gives his explantion about the differences between, "a
vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model."
•Debbie Campbell explains how the
Dublin Core Metadata and the Australian MetaWeb Project are involved to
make metadata work on the web.
•Jim Goldstein interviews
David Riecks by for his Exif
and Beyond podcast series regarding PhotoMetadata.org,
Controlled Vocabulary, and the GetMetaSmart tour.
Thesauri
•How
do you build a thesaurus? from Dr. Dobbs Journal
•Online Dictionaries,
Glossaries and Encyclopedias - 101
•An article discussing Criteria
for Evaluating Thesaurus Software by Jochen Ganzmann, including a checklist.
General
•An article on Keyword
Theory by James Cook discusses the pros and cons of open vs controlled vocabulary.
•A word
stemming generator developed at DePaul might be used to think of word origins
you may have not considered.
•The Digital Libraries Initiative's D-Lib
magazine is available online.
•"Keeping
Found
Things Found" explores another means for Personal Information
Management.
•The "Stuff
I've Seen" (SIS) program attempts to answer the riddle:
The more data you have, the more you know...The more you know, the more you forget...The
more you forget, the less you know....So why have data?
Media Asset Management
•"Direct
Annotation: A Drag-and-Drop Strategy for Labeling Photos" links to
a Word document by Ben Shneiderman, Hyunmo Kang.
•The University
of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Laboratory has developed a prototype
application called PhotoFinder as part of its research effort on Personal Photo
Libraries. Read about "Web-siteStarter:
Exporting photo library to the web" in this Word document.
•When
Image Is Everything: Finding and Using Graphics from the Web by Nicolas
G. Tomaiuolo. Want to know where to go for images, how to find and download
them, and the copyright issues involved? Then focus in on this descriptive article
and you'll get the picture!
•The Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative is the group that is engaged in the development of interoperable
online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business
models. While the name might imply that the group is in Ireland, it actually
refers to Dublin, Ohio, the location of the first meeting of the Library and
Information Science professionals that devised the "core" set of metadata
for cataloging content on the internet.
•Taxonomystrategies
is an information management consultancy that specializes in applying taxonomies,
metadata, automatic classification, and other information retrieval technologies
to the needs of business.
•Pound Hill Software
has done some especially interesting work with the XMP metadata framework for
the publishing industry.
•CIP4 is
international, world wide operating standards body located in Switzerland working
to encourage computer
based integration of all processes that have to be considered in the graphic
arts industry, in particular the specification of standards, such as the
Job Definition Format (JDF).
•The Resource Description Framwork
(RDF) is a project of the WC3, the standards body that brought you HTML and
the internet (after a fashion).
•Webchoir is a full-featured,
integrated vocabulary control system with solutions for: information producers,
indexers, and seekers.
•SchemaLogic provides
commercial solutions to simplify data integration and information retrieval
through the use of collaboratively shared schema.
•The PLUS
Coalition has built a glossary and usage matrix controlled vocabulary to be
used in the licensing
of photographic images.
•The Faceted
Classification forum discusses the creation and implementation of an alternative
to controlled vocabularies named, obviously enough, "Faceted Classification."
•The eXchangeable
Faceted Metadata Language provides the XFML format for all to use in
representing glossary/thesauri structures. The XFML
1.0 spec can be downloaded
from a page on this site..
•The Queensland University of Technology maintains a list of Thesaurus
and Ontology Management Software that may be of use.
• Term Tree Thesaurus Software
is from Australia and has a Windows only application that can be used to create
and manage subject (ISO 2788) or records management scheme (AS4390 - ISO 15489)
thesauri, synonym rings, controlled vocabularies or taxonomies.
•The Willpower
Information website has a whole section on Software
for Building and Editing Thesauri.
•The SAA Metadata Manifesto
Blog provides updates and notices about best
practices in the use of image metadata.
•The Photo Metadata Blog is updated periodicaly with news items referring
to metadata issues.
•That
DAM show is a weekly the media industry's first and only podcast devoted
to content and digital asset management.
•The Exif
and Beyond podcast covers a wide variety of topics centered on digital photography
and image management.
•Henrik de Gyor shares what he has learned as a Digital Asset Manager for
an educational organization in his Another
DAM Blog -- such as dealing with collections,
metadata management, permissions and training for all users throughout an enterprise.
•Philip Spiegel covers topics regarding Digital Asset Management, Media
Asset
Management, Metadata, and Archive Operations in his DAM
ideas blog.
•The Cataloging Futures blog is a stated "Work" in Progress regarding
the future of cataloging and metadata in libraries.