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Taxonomies & Thesauri
Resources about taxonomies and thesauri and concentrating on government thesauri.
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- Victoria Online Thesaurus - Version 2.7, February 2011
- The Victoria Online Thesaurus is a subject thesaurus of descriptive terms that reflect the themes and resources within vic.gov.au, the Victorian Government’s website. The vic.gov.au website provides access to Victorian Government information and services. The VO Thesaurus has been developed to populate the Keyword (DC.Subject) field within the VO Metadata Application Profile (VOMAP) and is also used to improve search using keywords within the social media directory.
Added: 25 February 2011
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- Thesauri - Archive
- Resources about thesauri and concentrating on government thesauri.
Added: 16 December 2005
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- Victoria Online Thesaurus Updates
- New terms added to the Victoria Online Thesaurus.
Added: 3 February 2006
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- Powerhouse Object Name Thesaurus now available via our API!
- by Seb Chan. fresh + new(er) - discussion of issues around digital media and museums, June 2nd, 2011. "Luke Dearnley is at LOD-LAM this week and he and Carlos Arroyo are pleased to publicly announce that the Powerhouse Object Name Thesaurus is now available through our API. The Object Name Thesaurus was developed by the Powerhouse Museum to standardise the terms used to describe its own collection. It was first published in 1995 as the Powerhouse Museum Collection Thesaurus. Since then, many new terms have been added to the thesaurus within the Powerhouse’s collection information and management system. The print version has long been popular with collecting institutions to assist in the documentation of their own collections..."
Added: 2 June 2011;
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- Search Taxonomies and Search Engines: Answering Questions vs. Indexing Webpages
- By Bill Slawski. SEO by the Sea, November 16, 2009. "... A patent application from Yahoo published last week explores ways to return information directly to searchers, based upon building taxonomies of information about specific people, places, and things, gathered from information found on web pages, rather than having searchers look through multiple web pages to find answers to queries such as 'Ronald Reagan movies.'..."
Added: 19 November 2009;
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- Lexical FreeNet Connected thesaurus
- Datamuse Corporation. "This program allows you to search for relationships between words, concepts, and people. It is a combination thesaurus, rhyming dictionary, pun generator, and concept navigator. Use it to find words that fit the needs of whatever writing endeavor you've undertaken, or just to browse concept space..." You can use this for your SEO keyword research projects.
Added: 3 December 2008;
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- Creating User-Centred Taxonomies: Part Two
- By James Kelway. FUMSI, September 2008. This two-part article is a step-by-step guide for those wishing to create new taxonomies for their business unit or client. It will outline the many different elements that make up a quality taxonomy and the pitfalls you should be aware of when starting a new project. In part two of this article, we look at creating, testing and launching the taxonomy..."
Added: 8 September 2008;
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- Creating User Centred Taxonomies: Part One
- By James Kelway. FUMSI, August 2008. "This two-part article is a step-by-step guide for those wishing to create new taxonomies for their business unit, or client. It will outline the many different elements that make up a quality taxonomy and the pitfalls you should be aware of when starting a new project..."
Added: 8 September 2008;
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- Better Living Through Taxonomies
- By Heather Hedden. Digital Web Magazine, February 5, 2008. "Large websites and intranets can benefit from improved methods of search and navigation. These include site maps, A-Z indexes, sophisticated search engines, and generally improved navigational design—and playing a potential role in all of these methods is well-planned taxonomy..."
Added: 12 March 2008;
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- Apply IA techniques when creating taxonomies
- CMb 2007-13, by James Robertson. Step Two Designs, 9 August 2007. "Taxonomies define the structure that underpins document and records management systems, knowledge management projects and more..."
Added: 10 August 2007;
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- What Shape is a Taxonomy?
- by Patrick. greenchameleon.com, 17 April 2006. "One of the big problems about taxonomies (there are many) is that we keep getting kicked back to the biological definition of what it should look like and how it’s structured. In particular we are told a taxonomy needs to have a hierarchical tree structure following some very strict rules about how each branch relates to its peers but particularly to the concepts above it..."
Added: 26 April 2006;
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- Defining Taxonomy
- by Patrick. greenchameleon.com, 18 April 2006. "Yesterday I made the claim that a taxonomy cannot be defined by its shape, which is mostly how it does get defined eg "A taxonomy is a hierarchical arrangement of terms blah blah blah...". I argued that taxonomies should be defined more by their purpose and use, less by the structural form they happen to take (which can vary according to circumstance)..."
Added: 26 April 2006;
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- Localization in the context of taxonomies - When you need to localize and categorize
- by Christian Donner. cmswatch.com, 13 March 2006. "... locale information is not isolated, but becomes part of the overall content categorization, or taxonomy. Before you can localize, you must understand the relationships between all the components of the taxonomy, and design your information structures accordingly...."
Added: 20 March 2006;
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