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Building Taxonomies Part 5

Building Taxonomies Part 5. Alice Redmond-Neal Access Innovations, Inc . Enterprise Search Summit New York City, May 21, 2006. Show ‘em what you’ve got – displays for every user. Thesaurus/taxonomy views and functions depend on audience and purpose taxonomists

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Building Taxonomies Part 5

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  1. Building Taxonomies Part 5 Alice Redmond-Neal Access Innovations, Inc. Enterprise Search Summit New York City, May 21, 2006

  2. Show ‘em what you’ve got – displays for every user • Thesaurus/taxonomy views and functions depend on audience and purpose • taxonomists • indexers • corporate workers • public searchers

  3. For the taxonomist Taxonomists NEED MOST and WANT even MORE! • Hierarchy view • Alphabetic view • Permuted (KWIC) view • Single term record view • Graphical view • Notational view • Deleted terms • Candidate terms • Retrieve term record • Find term in hierarchy view

  4. Hierarchy Alphabetical Permuted (KWIC) Term record

  5. Notation view

  6. For the indexer • Search to retrieve term record • Access to Scope Notes, Related Terms, NonPreferred Terms • Hierarchy view for the big picture • Automated proposal of indexing terms

  7. For the searcher • Browsable directory (Yahoo.com, MediaSleuth.com) • Faceted navigation (MOMA.org, LandsEnd.com) • Alpha term list or terms grouped by letter • Drop down list with selected terms • Portal view – complete or partial taxonomy • Display terms may be identical to taxonomy terms • Display terms may be variants, mapped to taxonomy terms • Taxonomy may not be accessible – requires random guessing

  8. Results from sample of 1,100 documents (not all categories are populated) Display taxonomy categories

  9. Reveal Narrower Terms

  10. Select taxonomy category to display titles

  11. Access full bibliographic record

  12. Faceted navigation

  13. SLA website and thesaurus

  14. SLA search

  15. Concept indexing – effect on retrieval Search query: THESAURUS Precision search based on M.A.I. indexing: 3 hits Free text, no indexing  0 hits

  16. Search: kangaroo Broader Terms Narrower Terms Related Terms Use (synonyms) Leverage taxonomy term information to aid search

  17. Indexing rule Term record

  18. What we’ve covered • Taxonomy – from different perspectives • Collecting and organizing concepts • Term choice and vocabulary control • Taxonomy structure • Term relationships • Term format • Factored and compound terms • Constructing a simple taxonomy • Display variations for different users

  19. “The Computer and the Poet” “The biggest single need in computer technology is not for improved circuitry, or enlarged capacity, or prolonged memory, or miniaturized containers, but for better questions and better use of answers.” Norman Cousins,editorial in The Saturday Review, July 23, 1966 special issue on “The New Computer Age” Through taxonomies, effectively applied through indexing, we aim to efficiently connect the questions and the answers.

  20. Questions? Comments? Thanks for your attention! Alice Redmond-Neal ared@accessinn.com Access Innovations, Inc. www.AccessInn.com Data Harmony software www.DataHarmony.com

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