The Accidental Taxonomist

A and B are related; C and D are related. Taxonomies and thesauri are characterized by having hierarchical relationships linking their terms...

It is somewhat ironic that in the domain of controlled vocabularies and knowledge organizations systems that there continue to exist diffe...

One of the benefits of a taxonomy is that there are relationships between the terms to support navigating to find the most suitable term...

The activities of back-of-the-book indexing, document/digital asset indexing, and thesaurus/taxonomy creation all require similar skills, b...

At this year’s Taxonomy Boot Camp conference , I was invited to present on the panel giving 5-minute “Pecha Kucha” lightning talks, for whi...