Week 9 : Linked data taxonomies/vocabularies
Resources
Ch. 1 (Building a Case for Building Taxonomies) and Ch. 2 (Taxonomy Basics) from Hlava, M. (2014). The Taxobook: Principles and Practices of Building Taxonomies, Part 2 of a 3-Part Series. eISBN: 9781627055819.
Difference between classification schemes and taxonomies/thesauri:
- From the Accidental Taxonomist
- From the Library of Congress
- Redmond-Neal, A. (2013). Starting a Taxonomy Project: Taxonomy Basics. In SLA 2013.Access here.
Standard and most popular namespace for taxonomy/thesauri:
- ANSI/NISO. (2010). ANSI/NISO Z39.19 - Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies. ANSI/NISO. Content and Collection Management Topic Committee. Access here.
- SKOS ( Simple Knowledge Organization System). Access here.
Then read:
- Schaible, J. (2017). TermPicker: Recommending Vocabulary Terms for Reuse When Modeling Linked Open Data (Doctoral dissertation, Christian-Albrechts Universität Kiel). Access here.
- Aida Slavic (2011) Classification revisited: a web of knowledge. In: Innovations in information retrieval: perspectives for theory and practice. Eds. Allen Foster and Pauline Rafferty. London: Facet, pp. 23-48. Access here.
- Ehrmann, M., Jacquet, G., & Steinberger, R. (2017). JRC-Names: Multilingual entity name variants and titles as Linked Data. Semantic Web, 8(2), 283-295. Access here.
- Gruninger, M., Bodenreider, O., Olken, F., Obrst, L., & Yim, P. (2008). Ontology Summit 2007- Ontology, taxonomy, folksonomy: Understanding the distinctions. Applied Ontology, 3, 191–200. Access here.
ADVANCED READ: Smiraglia, R. P., & Heuvel, C. (2013). Classifications and concepts: towards an elementary theory of knowledge interaction. Journal of Documentation, 69(3), 360–383. doi:10.1108/JD-07-2012-0092