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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. Events - please feel free to add information about events you think should be publicized here! (available to logged-in users)
3. Standards section - keep up on what is happening for current and proposed Controlled Vocabularies, Terminology, Semantic and other standards effecting our domain.
4. Governing documents and other administrative information on the division (available to Division members).
5. Where to turn - list of officers and committee chairs (available to logged-in users)
6. Committee areas for the division (available to committee members)
7. Your suggestions - workshops you'd like to attend, guest "columnists", etc. Add your comments to the appropriate page, or to the "Free text" page.

Forthcoming:

1. White papers, Best practices and other guidelines for implementation and maintenance

SLA Taxonomy Division officers and committees: see the Leadership section


Credits
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."


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