Taxonomy workshop modules and possible topics include the following. If all of the topics are included, then each module would run approximately 4 hours.
1. Understanding Taxonomies and Other Controlled Vocabularies
Audience: The widest audience, including project managers, project owners or leads, product managers, content managers, content strategists, knowledge managers, information managers, information architects, librarians, taxonomy editors, subject matter experts, etc.
- Definitions, Types and Examples
- Purposes, Uses, and Benefits
- Standards and Models
- Metadata and Taxonomies
- Determining the Controlled Vocabulary Type
- Categories and Tags
- Structural Design: Hierarchies
- Structural Design: Facets
- Building vs. Buying a Controlled Vocabulary
2. Creating Taxonomies: Concepts and Relationships
Audience: Those who will be engaged in designing, creating, editing, managing, maintaining, and/or updating taxonomies, thesauri, or other controlled vocabularies, whether information professionals or subject matter experts. This workshop module includes the most exercises.
- Creating and Concepts and Labels
- Synonyms / Alternative Labels
- Sources for Concepts
- Hierarchical (Broader/Narrower) Relationships
- Associative (Related Concept) Relationships
- Customized Relationships
- Ontology Design Basics
- Taxonomy Management Software
3. Taxonomy Implementation and Management
Audience: Those who manage taxonomy projects and those who work on taxonomies (as in modules 1 and 2 above), and additionally those in more technical roles of taxonomy implementation
- Tagging with a Taxonomy
- Auto-Classification
- Content Management System Implementation of Taxonomies
- Testing Taxonomies
- UI Displays and Taxonomies
- Taxonomy Integration with Search
- Mapping Taxonomies
- Multilingual Taxonomies
- Taxonomy Project Planning, Process, and Management
- Taxonomy Maintenance and Governance
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