Taxonomy Home

This is the home page for the SLA Taxonomy space. We are very pleased to have you visit us here.

On this Wiki you will find an increasing resource of information on Controlled Vocabularies including Taxonomies, Thesauri, Ontologies, Terminologies, and other Knowledge Organization and Classification Systems. We encourage you to contribute!

The Wiki includes:

Current:

1. A short history of the SLA Taxonomy Division
2. Standards section - keep up on what is happening for current and proposed Controlled Vocabularies, Terminology, Semantic and other standards effecting our domain.
3. Governing documents and other administrative information on the division
4. Where to turn - list of officers and committee chairs

Forthcoming:

1. White papers, Best practices and other guidelines for implementation and maintenance
2. Committee areas for the division
3. Your suggestions - workships you'd like to attend, guest "columnists", ...

Sections

Events of Interest

Upcoming Events

Starting The Division

   Why a Taxonomy Division? - Need, Reasons to organize
   What should it be called?
   Survey of KM & IT division
   As of September 1, 2009, We're official!

Standards

Notes on current activity on the Standards Recap page

Governing Documents and Administrative Information

   The Scope Note
   Leadership
   Resources for Divisions

Current Discussion Questions

Program Ideas
Taxonomy Value and ROI

SLA Taxonomy Division committee updates

Archives; Chair:Arjun Sabharwal	Updates:
Communications; Chair: Michelle Mayes	Updates:
Bulletin; Co-Chairs: Teresa Macgregor, Amanada Roberts	Updates:
Listserv; Chair:Arjun Sabharwal	Updates:
Web/Wiki; Chair: Michelle Mayes	Updates:
Finance (still forming)	Updates:
Membership; Chair: Terri Zimmer	Updates:
Professional Development, Chair: Christine Connors	Updates:
Program; Chair: Hannah Rubin	Updates:
Hospitality; Chair: Hannah Rubin	Updates:
Publication; Chair: Jennifer Borrell	Updates:
Strategic Planning; Co-Chairs: Marcy Brown; Mary Martinez-Garcia	Updates:
Vendor Relations; Chair: Janice M. Herd	Updates:

Image borrowed from Green Chameleon: "From the National Institute of Genetics, Japan, comes this stunning taxonomy viewer covering the so called "tree of life" - the taxonomy of known cellular organisms."