Friday, October 30, 2009

The Taxonomists Career

Becoming a Taxonomist: Real Life Stories by Karen Loasby, FUMSI (Oct 2009)

Four information taxonomists tell their career stories - Heather Hedden, Helen Lippell, Dorothy Tuma and Stephen D'Arcy. We see a mix of indexing, information architecture, information management. There are many backgrounds, such as Dorothy's "In addition to abetting my creative avocations, getting my MFA taught me to think about concepts, meaning, semantics, aboutness, and implicit versus explicit meaning. "

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