Presentation to the September 2016 AVSIG meeting

• A guide to building information taxonomies
• "Drawing on numerous real-world examples, Hedden explains how to create terms and relationships, select taxonomy management software, design taxonomies for human versus automated indexing, manage enterprise taxonomy projects, and adapt taxonomies to various user interfaces"
• Published 2016

• Based on ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005. Topics include principles of controlled vocabularies, their structure, semantic relations, and display.
• Published 2015

• "This practical text examines the criteria relevant to the selection of a subject management system, describes the characteristics of some common types of subject tool, and takes the novice step-by-step through the process of creating a system for a specialist environment. The methodology employed is a standard technique for the building of a thesaurus that incidentally creates a compatible classification or taxonomy, both of which may be used in a variety of ways for document or information management."
• Published 2006

• "Taxonomies are often thought to play a niche role within content-oriented knowledge management projects. They are thought to be ‘nice to have’ but not essential. In this ground-breaking book, Patrick Lambe shows how they play an integral role in helping organizations coordinate and communicate effectively. Through a series of case studies, he demonstrates the range of ways in which taxonomies can help organizations to leverage and articulate their knowledge. A step-by-step guide in the book to running a taxonomy project is full of practical advice for knowledge managers and business owners alike."
• Published 2007

• "This book outlines the basic principles of creation and maintenance of taxonomies and thesauri. It also provides step by step instructions for building a taxonomy or thesaurus and discusses the various ways to get started on a taxonomy construction project."
• Published 2014

• "A practical guide to the construction of thesauri for use in information retrieval, written by leading experts in the field. Includes: planning and design; vocabulary control; specificity and compound terms; structure and relationships; auxiliary retrieval devices; multilingual thesauri; AAT Compound Term Rules. The US ANSI/NISO Z39.19 Thesaurus construction standard is also covered."
• Published 2000

• "This guide was constructed as part of MoTIF (Mo Thesaurus of Irish Folklore), a collaborative project led by the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) and the National Library of Ireland (NLI). One of the project aims was to produce guidelines on the construction of thesauri for librarians, archivists, museum professionals and other information professionals. The guidelines are contained in this document and are accompanied by a pilot thesaurus of Irish folklore."
• Published 2014

• "The purpose of this module is to teach you the basics of constructing an information retrieval thesaurus."
• Topics include an introduction to to thesauri, selection of terms, and semantic relations.
• Last updated 2008

• 2016 blog posting from the author of "The Accidental Taxonomist" describes TemaTres, ThManager, VocBench and Protoge

• Listings provided by Taxobank (hosted by Access Innovations). Latest update appears from 2013.

• Listings provided by Taxonomy Warehouse (hosted by Synaptica)

• Presentation to the March 2017 AVSIG meeting

• "Introduces the various features of SKOS, illustrating how they can be used to represent existing KOS data. Presents how the vision of leveraging existing KOS on the web of data is being adopted in a number of projects, in the Cultural Heritage sector and beyond. Discusses available tooling and methods for creating and publishing SKOS as well as porting legacy KOS data to SKOS"
• Slides from DC-2011 conference tutorial

• "This document is an implementors guide for those who would like to represent their concept scheme using SKOS."
• Published 2008

• Vocabularies are categorised by subject and searchable by properties including language, type (e.g. classification, name authority) and format.

• Maintained by CSIRO, the list is organised by categories including "general research", "earth and environment", "detailed science", and "general purpose".

• "LOV focuses on a subset of vocabularies for the description of RDF data. It does not include any Value Vocabularies such as SKOS thesaurus."

• Provided by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), the RVA discovery portal includes faceted search on subject, publisher, format, access method and license.

• Alphabetic listing. Vocabulary descriptions include link to publisher.
• Hosted by Synaptica
• Please note: this link seems to fail in some web browsers

• Presentation to the COAR Controlled Vocabularies Interest Group.
• Published 2016

• Vocabulary service provided by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
• "Research Vocabularies Australia (RVA) makes it easy to find and use controlled vocabularies used in research. It also makes it possible for Australian research organisations to publish, re purpose, create, and manage their own controlled vocabularies."

• "SISSVoc is a Linked Data API for accessing published vocabularies. SISSVoc provides a RESTful interface via a set of URI patterns that are aligned with SKOS. "
• Users include AuScope and ARDC

• Open source SKOS browsing and publishing tool.
• Users include finto and FAO

• Open source "read-only web delivery system for Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)-formulated RDF vocabularies."
• Users include Geoscience Australia (GA) and Geological Survey Queensland (GSQ)

• Open source "Python web application to serve SKOS-encoded vocabularies as Linked Data."
• Users include TERN (Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network)

• 3 part recorded webinar series sponsored by the American Society for Indexing and presented by the author of "The Accidental Taxonomist"
• "Practical Taxonomy Creation is aimed at beginners or others seeking practical training. Whether you are new to taxonomies or are familiar with taxonomies in theory but have minimal experience, this course is for you."
• Topics include taxonomy types, gathering terms, and taxonomy management software.

• 5 self-paced online modules, from the author of "The Accidental Taxonomist"
• "This course provides both a basic introduction to taxonomies, discusses best practices for creating terms and relationships, and provides some practice to start working on taxonomies and thesauri."
• Topics include an introduction to taxonomies, hierarchical relationships, and deciding how to name taxonomy terms. 

• Provided by the Association for Information and Image Management (aiim)
• "Students can go at their own pace and have six months to complete the course and take the final exam to earn their Taxonomy and Metadata Specialist certificate."
• Topics include scoping a taxonomy project, understanding design principles, deciding whether to create or adopt, facet analysis.

• "Presents guidelines and conventions for the contents, display, construction, testing, maintenance, and management of monolingual controlled vocabularies. It focuses on controlled vocabularies that are used for the representation of content objects in knowledge organization systems including lists, synonym rings, taxonomies, and thesauri."
• Published 2010

• "Part 1 of the standard, published in 2011, covers all aspects of developing a thesaurus, monolingual or multilingual. It has replaced the previous standards ISO 2788 and ISO 5964."
• "Part 2 of the standard ... main aim is to encourage high quality information retrieval across networked resources that have been indexed with different vocabularies. It explains how to set up mappings between the concepts in such vocabularies, and other forms of complementary use."
• Published 2011 & 2013

• Listings provided by the Taxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies Special Interest Group of the American Society for Indexing

• Listings provided by Taxonomy Warehouse (hosted by Synaptica)

• A list of consultants from The DAM Directory, "a vendor-neutral collection of curated resources on topics related to the multidisciplinary practice of digital asset management (DAM)."

• Consultancy listings from the Association of Information and Image Management (aiim). Listings are part of the aiim Buyers' Guide.