Links to other Sites (categorized by topic)

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
Using Controlled Vocabulary for searching an online database from Florida State University
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 introduction to Subject Headings & Controlled Vocabulary from 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
The Gateway to Educational Materials, and their Controlled Vocabularies used for education
A discussion of Free Text vs. Controlled Vocabulary systems from Lebanon Valley College.
Another take on this same subject from the University of Calgary Library.
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.
"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.
"Creating a Controlled Vocabulary" is another article by by Fred Leise and Karl Fast and Mike Steckel that is worth reading.

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.

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.

Thesauri
How do you build a thesaurus? from Dr. Dobbs Journal
Online Resources & Reference Material for creating a Thesaurus.
Online Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedias - 101
An article discussing Criteria for Evaluating Thesaurus Software by Jochen Ganzmann

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.

Media Asset Management
Archive Impact has two reports that might be of use to you if you are trying to save some time, they aren't free, but may be worth investigating. Look at the middle of this page for the research reports on: "Media Asset Management Systems, Basics" and "Media Asset Management Systems Software Reviews." I've not had the opportunity to read or reviewed these reports, but have corresponded with their marketing director when I was looking for additional resources related to image indexing.
"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!

Businesses and Organizations involved in Metadata and Taxonomy creation and Maintenance

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 new 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 is building 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 website provides the XFML format for all to use in representing glossary/thesauri structures.

Software for Creating and Maintaining Thesauri

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 list of other software offerings for building and editing thesauri.