1. Controlled Vocabularies, Taxonomies, Metadata, and more IA Summer Institute June 12-16 2006 Gary Carlson Chief Taxonomist garyc@schemalogic.com

2. Company Confidential © 2005 SchemaLogic Inc. WHAT? Taxonomies FromRosenfeld, L. & P. Morville. (2002). Chapter 9, “Thesauri, Controlled Vocabularies, and Metadata” in Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. 2nd ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly. (p. 176-208).

3. Company Confidential © 2005 SchemaLogic Inc. Connecting people to information requires a common language or perspective (semantics) Information stored in or about Documents Images People Products Places… Connecting people to information requires a common language or perspective (semantics) Information stored in or about Documents Images People Products Places… So What?

4. Company Confidential © 2005 SchemaLogic Inc. Usage Re-Usable Objects Capture a particular perspective Consistency Ease of Access Precision

5. Company Confidential © 2005 SchemaLogic Inc. They are everywhere

6. Company Confidential © 2005 SchemaLogic Inc. Why Connect people to products People to people Consistent information retrieval Accountability

7. Company Confidential © 2005 SchemaLogic Inc. Civilizations in decline are consistently characterized by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity. Arnold Toynbee, historian(1889-1975)

8. Gary Carlson Chief Taxonomist garyc@schemalogic.com 425.952.2152 Discussion Contact Information: