Resources for Taxonomy Creation and Content Management
Jan Herd, jher@loc.gov
Business Reference Librarian
Science, Technology & Business Division
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"How to book" on the construction of a thesaurus
Aitchison, Jean, Alan Gilchrist and David Bawsen. Thesaurus Construction and Use: A Practical Manual. 4. Ed. ISBN 1-57958-273-7 Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001. 232 p.
Information about thesauri/controlled vocabularies/software and The Library of Congress Subject Headings on the Web
ClassificationWeb software. The Library of Congress Subject Headings and Classification from the Cataloging Distribution Service.
http://www.loc.gov/cds
Middleton, Michael. Queensland University of Technology, Australia site at:
http://sky.fit.qut.edu.au/%7Emiddletm/
Introductory guide to RDFs
Iannella, Renato. An Idiot's Guide to the Resource Description Framework
Information about XML
http://www.XML.com
http://www.XMLhack.com
Information about Topic Maps
http://www.topicmaps.org
Examples and uses of ontologies of broad human endeavor
http://www.opencyc.org/
Standards and authority files
Topic maps (XTM) ISO 13250:2000
Thesaurus construction US ANSI/NISO Z39.19
Monolingual thesauri NISO 1998, ISO 1986
Multilingual thesauri ISO 1985
USGS Board of Geographic Names for geographic place names
Taxonomy builder software
Semio Taxonomy
XBRL Taxonomy Builder, etc.
InXight
LEXIS-NEXIS SmartIndexing
Factiva Intelligent Indexing
Interwoven Metatagger
Topic map software
Topic Map Navigator
Open source software and training for Topic maps:
http://www.cogx.com/
Last Updated: 02/07/2013
