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American Society for Indexing Annual Conference
Location: Bahia Resort, San Diego, CA
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2012, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
"Taxonomy & Thesaurus Creation"
     This popular workshop provides a thorough coverage of the principles of creating taxonomies and thesauri according to standards and best practices. Appropriate for beginner and intermediate practitioners, those with prior indexing or information science background should find this workshop sufficient preparation for getting started in taxonomy work. Short practical exercises will be interspersed among the topics. The workshop also includes demonstrations of thesaurus management software: MultiTes, Synaptica, and Data Harmony Thesaurus Master. Topics covered include: definitions, different kinds of relationships between terms, the wording of terms and their variants, facets and categories, sources for terms, taxonomy/thesaurus management software, project process, and related topics. See detailed outline.

Enterprise Search Summit
Location: Hilton New York, New York, NY
Date: Monday, May 14, 2012, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
"Building Taxonomies for Search and Autocategorization" pre-conference workshop
The use of taxonomies improves search results with both improved precision and recall. Relevant content is less likely missed and irrelevant content is less likely retrieved. Search engines that integrate their technology with taxonomies are often called auto-classification or auto-categorization systems. Although the indexing is automatic, and even taxonomy enhancement can be automatic, the designing and initial building of a taxonomy is not. This workshop provides best practices for designing and building taxonomies specifically for use in search, including the creation and wording of terms, synonyms, and hierarchical relationships. Other topics covered include: search taxonomy and navigational taxonomy comparisons, auto-categorization technologies, and tools for taxonomy management and auto-categorization. This workshop takes selections from a previous full-day continuing education workshop taught at Simmons Collect Graduate School of Library and Information Science and also draws on the chapter “Taxonomies for Automated Indexing” from the book, The Accidental Taxonomist.

SLA (Special Libraries Association) Annual Conference
Location: McCormick Place, Chicago, IL
Date: Monday, July 17, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
"Mapping, Merging, and Multi-lingual Taxonomies"
      With the growth in information management needs, more taxonomies and controlled vocabularies are being created. Over time, though, these taxonomies may need to take on new roles and applications, and duplicated taxonomies need to be reconciled. As a result we are seeing the need for new kinds of taxonomy management projects involving the integration, merging, or mapping of taxonomies. We are also seeing the need to translate taxonomies into other languages to broaden their audience. This presentation discusses scenarios and techniques for merging, mapping, and translating taxonomies or controlled vocabularies.