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
•Jean Bedford explains how "Using
Vocabularies to Improve Findability" works in this article on the
BeyeNetwork.
•Christine Wodtke tells why it's important to "Mind
Your Phraseology" in this piece in the Digital Web magazine (alternate
link from archive.org).
•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.
•A PDF
with a discussion of Free Text vs. Controlled
Vocabulary systems from Lebanon Valley College.
•ASPP, American Society
of Picture Professionals has some resources for devising methods to
file
and retrieve images; as well as webinars you can view for free.
•The CENDI
presentation archive has a number of media files (Powerpoint and PDF's)
regarding the use of controlled vocabularies and the internet. CENDI (Commerce,
Energy, NASA, Defense Information Managers Group) is an interagency group
of senior Scientific and Technical Information (STI) managers from 14 United
States federal agencies. There is also a page regarding Taxonomies,
Terminologies, and controlled vocabularies including their CENDI
Science Terminology Resources.
•"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 PDF. A PDF reprint of the original
web page may be more readable.
• 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.
•"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 Captioning
Style Guidelines for Department of Defense Imagery can be viewed online
or in a 52
page downloadable PDF (an
older version is on archive.org)
• Sarah Saunders
of Electric Lane writes about effective keywording in the Word
Up... article that was published 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.
•"The
Discipline
of Organizing" by Robert Glushko
covers metadata within a framework for the theory and practice of organizing
information. An overview is also available as
a downloadable
PDF
from
the Association
for Information Science and Technology.
•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" in
this PDF.
•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
•ISO
25964 the international standard for thesauri and interoperability with other
vocabularies As much a textbook as a formal standard, this resource
provides a comprehensive summary of recommendations for good practice, developed
by an international working party of information professionals. The standard
itself requires purchase, however this site is a great resource as it has a
great deal of background information such as: a data model for a thesaurus,
an email discussion list, and links to further reading and resources.
•Heather Hedden reviewed ISO 25964 for The Indexer in these
two PDF's: Part
1 | Part
2
•ANSI-NISO
Z.39.19 standard "Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management
of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies" is the predecessor to ISO 25964.
•Peter Morville answers the question: How
do you build a thesaurus? in 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 version of "Porter's
Stemming Algorithm" is online. Developed by Dr. Mobasher, Bamshad
from Depaul University, it might be used to think
of word
origins you may have not considered.
•The Digital Libraries Initiative's D-Lib
magazine archive 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?
•The DAM Glossary
is a resource containing definitions relating to Digital Asset Management and
related fields. It covers a range of different subjects including metadata,
hardware, interoperability, asset manipulation.
The DAM
Coalition website (now under the ProVideo Coalition) has a section dedicated
to Controlled Vocabulary for Digital Asset Management.
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. Later work
is at www.photomesa.com
•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 "Adding
Descriptions to Digital Photos" article by
Mike
Ashenfelder
(Library
of
Congress) gives a good overview of the process.
•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.
•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.
•SmartLogic (formerly SchemaLogic)
provides commercial solutions to simplify data integration and information
retrieval
through the use of collaboratively shared schema.
•PoolParty is
a firm dedicated to taxonomy and thesaurus management.
•The PLUS
Coalition has built a glossary and usage matrix controlled vocabulary to be
used in the licensing
of photographic images.
•An Introduction
to XFML 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.
•
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.
•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.
•The DAM
Survival Guide blog from David Diamond shows how his book makes DAM initiative
planning easier
•The DAMagedWorkflow
site is a blog about Digital Asset Management from Andrew Mannone.
•The TameYourAssets
site was developed by Ian Matzen as "an exploration of the ways digital
assets can be used and managed"
*last updated Februrary, 2018