The Accidental Taxonomist - Book Web Sites. Taxonomy Division - SLA Taxonomy - SLA's Wiki Spaces. Welcome to the home page of the of the SLA Taxonomy Division. If you are looking for information about the Division and its events and services, may we direct you to our public website . In this space you will find an increasing resource of information on Controlled Vocabularies including Taxonomies, Thesauri, Ontologies, Terminologies, and other Knowledge Organization and Classification Systems. We encourage you to contribute!
Members: Find Christine's Resources list New page: Taxonomy FAQs from the Mentoring Committee SLA Taxonomy Division officers and committees: see the Leadership section Image borrowed from Green Chameleon : "From the National Institute of Genetics, Japan, comes this stunning taxonomy viewer covering the so called "tree of life" - the taxonomy of known cellular organisms. " Taxonomy Warehouse - information organization, metadata ... Yippy – Welcome to the Cloud. The TAO of Topic Maps. Finding the Way in the Age of Infoglut Table of contents Abstract Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources. As such they constitute an enabling technology for knowledge management. While it is possible to represent immensely complex structures using topic maps, the basic concepts of the model — Topics, Associations, and Occurrences (TAO) — are easily grasped.
Note The original version of this paper was published in June 2000 and thus predates the development of XTM (XML Topic Maps). Since this paper deliberately avoids syntactical issues, the fact that there are now two standard interchange syntaxes for topic maps (HyTM and XTM) is not a problem. If the concepts described in this paper turn you on, look for pointers to further reading at [Ontopia 2002]. Biography 1. Someone once said that “a book without an index is like a country without a map”. In Troilus and Cressida Shakespeare used a different metaphor: 2. 2.1. What Is RDF. What Is RDF July 26, 2006 Joshua Tauberer Editor's Note: "What Is RDF" was originally written by Tim Bray in 1998 and updated by Dan Brickley in 2001. Recently it seemed like time for another update, particularly to relate RDF and the Semantic Web to the cutting edge of web development. We've republished the original in a new location and offer the following update.
I'll leave to you, dear reader, the task of deciding how well Joshua Tauberer has accomplished the task of updating a classic. -- Kendall Grant Clark Building the Semantic Web On the Semantic Web (SemWeb), computers do the browsing (and searching, and querying, and...) for us. There, of course, is knowledge on the current web, but it's off limits to computers. What is meant by "semantic" in Semantic Web is not that computers are going to understand the meaning of anything, but that the logical pieces of meaning can be mechanically manipulated by a machine to useful human ends. 1. Figure 1. 2. 3. Triples for Knowledge. Tagvy.com - tag-based search.