Series of four webinars sponsored by ASIS&T and presented by Access Innovations, Inc.
January 27, 2011: Semantic Integration - Leveraging the Taxonomy
February 3, 2011: Taxonomies in Search
February 10 2011: Setting Up the Store - Taxonomies in E-Commerce
February 17 2011: People Directories and Author Networks Based on Taxonomies
The DBpedia Ontology is a shallow, cross-domain ontology, which has been manually created based on the most commonly used infoboxes within Wikipedia. The ontology currently covers 685 classes which form a subsumption hierarchy and are described by 2,795 different properties.
“The smart Gellish English Dictionary is an electronic normal English dictionary that is extended with additional knowledge. All definitions and knowledge in the dictionary is expressed as computer interpretable relationships between the concepts in the dictionary. Most of the relations are specialization relations that specify that the concepts are subtypes of their supertype concepts. This results in a subtype-supertype hierarchy, so that the concepts are arranged in a taxonomy.
Contains the names and phylogenetic lineages of more than 160,000 organisms that have molecular data in the NCBI databases. New taxa are added to the Taxonomy database as data are deposited for them.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has developed a Controlled Health Thesaurus with an
ultimate aim of using the concepts on web content to provide better access and
navigation to the information. The CDC Web site at http://www.cdc.gov averages over 8
million visits each month and reaches citizens, public health providers, partners,
congressional staff, news agencies, researchers, and clinicians. In public health
emergencies, the site is a chief source of credible information as evidenced by the spike
The Taxonomy of Human Services is the Information and Referral (I&R) industry's classification system for indexing resources in I&R databases. It was developed by INFO LINE of Los Angeles, the predecessor to 211 LA County out of a need to classify and define health and human services. It has been endorsed by the national association Alliance for Information and Referral Systems (AIRS) and United Way of America as the standard indexing system for the industry.
“CONA is a new Getty vocabulary currently under development. We hope to introduce it to the user community in 2011. It will include authority records for cultural works, including architecture and movable works such as paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, manuscripts, photographs, ceramics, textiles, furniture, and other visual media such as frescoes and architectural sculpture, performance art, archaeological artifacts, and various functional objects that are from the realm of material culture and of the type collected by museums.“
“Contains around 900,000 records, including 1.2 million names, place types, coordinates, and descriptive notes. TGN focuses on places important for the study of art and architecture, including current and historical nations, cities, archaeological sites, and physical features.”
“ULAN is a structured vocabulary containing around 127,000 records, including 375,000 names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants."
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS™) is organizing a one-day meeting – Improving the User Search Experience Part I: Leveraging Technology, to be held on May 14, 2010 at the Lyrasis Office in Philadelphia, PA, from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Virtual attendance is optional for those unable to travel to Philadelphia.
Event date:
Fri, 2010-05-14
Event time:
2010-05-14 15:00 to 23:00
Event location:
Lyrasis Office in Philadelphia, PA
Virtual attendance is optional for those unable to travel to Philadelphia.
