Completed Project: Controlled Vocabulary Management
XIST recently completed a project to analyze the uses, benefits and management issues related to the maintenance of controlled vocabularies for a government department. This project included:
- thesaurus application review & environmental scan
- stakeholder consultations
- metadata and controlled vocabulary management
- application of controlled vocabularies in departmental applications
- search architecture for web resources
Posted by Chris Savage at
02:35 PM
Folksonomies
Many-to-Many: folksonomies controlled vocabularies
Here is a snippet of an ongoing debate over the value of 'folksonomies', or user developed taxonomies. Usually I am happy to take sides in these kinds of debates but this one leaves me on the fence.
On one hand I am a firm believer in centrally organized standards. From nuts and bolts to metadata, standards make life a whole lot easier.
On the other hand, I am also a believer in the creative and innovative power of a community, especially a self selected online community.
I will be keeping an eye on this debate as it unfolds further.
Posted by Tim Wayne at
02:28 PM
