Taxonomy Management Tools

New Advisory Paper: Taxonomy Management Tools, Angela Guess, Semantic Web (Nov 17)

Costs money but could be useful -- "New Taxonomy Management Advisory Paper from The Real Story Group(PRWEB) November 15, 2011

The Real Story Group just released a new Advisory Paper: "Taxonomy Management Tools: A Comparative Evaluation." Taxonomy management tools have become a key player in end-to-end architectures for tackling content organization challenges, but the tools vary substantially in approach, and the marketplace as a whole remains somewhat immature, according to The Real Story Group, an independent analyst firm that evaluates web and enterprise technologies."

Taxonomy and Metadata Uppermost

Taxonomy and Metadata and Findability Influence Traditional Roles, Theresa Putkey, KeyPoint Usability Consulting (Oct 17)

A view from the trenches perhaps --

"As an information architect, I work with companies who are struggling with information organization. They recognize the need to put their information into a content management system (CMS) to ensure digital information or digital surrogates for physical objects can be found. As a consultant, companies hire me to help build metadata and taxonomy structures."

US National Agricultural Library Agricultural Thesaurus

http://www2.blogger.com/img/blank.gif, Press release from USDA (Oct 11, 2011)

The Agricultural Thesaurus from the National Agricultural Library (US) is fully available online.

" It provides standard terms in both English and Spanish that can be used for indexing to improve the retrieval of information."http://www2.blogger.com/img/blank.gif