Web Sites from the Book
Following are all the external web sites listed throughout The Accidental
Taxonomist and gathered in Appendix D of the book, often grouped
by section headings within the corresponding chapters. In some cases the
link here differs slightly from that printed in the book, by being more
direct to a subpage on an external site, involving a URL which would have
been too long to print in the book. Over time, if web links change, they
will be updated here.
Chapter 1 – What Are Taxonomies?
Thesaurus Standards
International Standard
Organization
National Information Standard
Organization
The British Standards Institution
Ontologies
International Association for Ontology and its
Applications
Example Taxonomies
Library of Congress Subject Headings
(LCSH)
Medical Subject Headings
(MeSH)
ERIC
Vocabularies
Getty
Research Institute Vocabularies
SuperPages
Amazon.com
Shoebuy.com
Microbial
Life Education Resources
MyFlorida.com site map
Taxonomies for License
Taxonomy Warehouse
Chapter 2 – Who are Taxonomists?
Taxonomy Community of Practice
Taxonomy Jobs Yahoo list
LinkedIn people search
Chapter 3 – Creating Terms
World List Expert from MechanicWords
American
Society for Indexing - Online Thesauri and Authority Files
ANSI/NISO
Z39.19-2005
Chapter 4 – Creating Relationships
No web links
Chapter 5 – Software for Taxonomy Creation and Management
Mind Mapping and Concept Modeling Software
Xmind
FreeMind from SourceForge
Cmap from the Florida Institute
for Human & Machine Cognition
TheBrain from TheBrain Technologies
LP
MindManager from MindJet
VisiMap from Coco Systems Ltd.
Ontology Software
TopBraid Composer from TopQuadrant
Thesaurus Software Resources
Willpower Information
Taxonomy Community of Practice Wiki
TaxoTips
Thesaurus Software
MultiTes Pro from Multisystems
Cognatrix from LGOSystems
Data Harmony from Access
Innovations
Synaptica
Wordmap
SchemaLogic
Smartlogic
STAR/Thesaurus
from Cuadra Associates
SoutronTHESAURUS
from Soutron
ITM T3 from from Mondeca
Amicus Thesaurus
TheW32
and TheW for Java
TemaTres
ThManager
Protégé
Ontology Editor
SKOS editor
plug-in for Protégé
Adlib
Open
Text Webtop Thesaurus Manager
a.k.a. from Synercon Management
Consulting
One-2-One from Active Classification
Solutions
Chapter 6 – Taxonomies for Human Indexing
Folksononmies
Delicious
Connotea
Diigo
Flickr
Chapter 7 – Taxonomies for Automated Indexing
NetOwl from SRA International
Inxight ThingFinder
Rosette Entity
Extractor from BASIS Technology
Data
Harmony Metadata Extractor
iQuest Analytics
Inxight
SmartDiscovery Analysis Server
Lexalytics Classifier
Autonomy
Collaborative Classifier
Autonomy
Interwoven MetaTagger
Data
Harmony Machine Aided Indexer
Smartlogic
Semaphore Content Classification Services
SAS Enterprise Content
Categorization and Ontology Management
Wordmap Intelligent Text Classifier
Open Text Nstein Text Mining Engine
Concept Searching
Chapter 8 – Taxonomy Structures
Hierarchy Examples
Yahoo directory
dmoz directory
Facet Examples
Monster
browse
My
Recipes browse
Kelley Blue Book
Land’s End
Chapter 9 – Taxonomy Displays
National Agriculture Library Thesaurus
ERIC
Thesaurus A-Z Browse display
ThomasNet business directory
Search
Harmony
Open Directory Project
Buzzillions
Search
Patterns
Florida
Memory
Colorado
Springs Pioneer Museum
CSA
Illumina
Sources for Taxonomies
Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary
Dialog
Blue Sheet: Trade & Industry Database
Chapter 10 – Taxonomy Planning, Design, and Creation
Web analytics software
ClickTale
Clicky
iWebTrack
Mint
Unica
NetInsight
OptimalIQ
Omniture SiteCatalyst
Visitorville
WebTrends
Cardsorting software
WebSort
OptimalSort
MindCanvas
Chapter 11 – Taxonomy Implementation and Evolution
Interoperability formats
XML
ZThes
RDF
OWL
SKOS
Multilingual Taxonomy Examples
International Relations and Area Studies
European Training Thesaurus
Chapter 12 – Taxonomy Work and Profession
Continuing Education and Training
Simmons
College
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Institute
University
of Toronto Faculty of Information
American Library Association
Association of College and Research Libraries
Special Libraries
Association CLICK University
AIIM
Information Organization & Access Practitioner Course
Aslib
(Association for Information Management)
Library
of Congress
The Montague
Institute
Earley & Associates
Conferences with Taxonomy Workshops
Special
Libraries Association
American
Society for Indexing
ASIS&T
IA Summit
Euro IA
American
Libraries Association
AIIM
Taxonomy Boot Camp
KMWorld
Enterprise
Search Summit
Semantic Technology
Conference
Gilbane Conference
Computers in Libraries
Henry Steward Data Asset
Management Conferences
Online Tutorials
Construction
of Controlled Vocabularies: A Primer
Thesaurus
Construction tutorial by Tim Craven
Organizations and Networks
SLA
(Special Libraries Association) Taxonomy Division
Taxonomies & Controlled
Vocabularies SIG of ASI
Information Architecture Institute
American Society for Information
Science & Technology
Content Management
Professionals
Taxonomy
Tuesday
LinkedIn
Indexers Network
Twine
Web Resources
Taxonomy Community
of Practice Wikispace
Taxonomy Watch
Blog by Linda Farmer
Green Chameleon Blog
by Patrick Lambe
Lee Romero Blog On Content,
Collaboration, and Findability
The Taxonomy
Blog by Marlene Rockmore
Synaptica Central
Blog
Access Innovations,
Inc - Library
Earley & Associates
- Knowledge
Taxonomy
Strategies - Library
Willpower
Information - Publications
Please address link corrections to Heather Hedden (heather at hedden dot
net).
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