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Announcements2011 Taxonomy Tuesday Meeting Schedule: Co-chairs: Nikkia Anderson (nanderson@iiaweb.com), Kathleen Caggiano (kcaggiano@bna.com), Amanda Wilson (amanda.wilson@dot.gov), Wiki Support: Brand Niemann MeetingsJune 28, 2011Just a reminder that our Tea and Talk is tomorrow! Details are below. April 19, 2011Who: Heather Hedden, Senior Analyst, Project Performance Corporation Slides PDF When: Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 12-2 PM Where: Library of Congress Madison Building 101 Independence Ave., SE Washington, DC 20540 Room LM-222 (CWC), Meeting Room A *We also recommend everybody to arrive at least 10 minutes early due to security screening. (No pre-registration necessary though.) Directions: The Library of Congress is across the corner of the Capitol South Metro Station (Blue and Orange Lines). We encourage everybody to use public transportation as parking is very difficult in the area. Within the building, the CWC Meeting Room A is on the second floor (LM-222) between the yellow and red cores. If anybody needs directions to or within the LC Madison Building, they can contact me at mlanzeritsch@crs.loc.gov or 202-707-4892. Description: Heather Hedden, author of the book The Accidental Taxonomist, will present several special topics in taxonomy or thesaurus management as described in Chapter 11 of her book, “Taxonomy Implementation and Evolution”: 1. Taxonomy Updating – when one might update or revise a taxonomy, what to review, and what to change 2. Taxonomy Combining – the differences of merging, integrating, and mapping taxonomies and when and how to do each 3. Taxonomy Translating – the creation of multilingual taxonomies to serve different language or country users March 29, 2011Who: Joseph Busch, Senior Principal Information Management at Project Performance Corporation and Richard Morey, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) What: Presentation on the SAMHSA project (see below for more details) When: Tuesday, March 29th, from 12 - 2pm Where: Conference Room #5 U.S. Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Ave. S.E. Washington, DC 20590 *Please RSVP to Amanda Wilson (Amanda.Wilson@dot.gov) by March 23rd, and don't forget to bring a photo ID. More presentation information: Unifying Health Information Services at SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) SAMHSA launched a redesigned and integrated Web site that provides multiple ways to exchange information with and between customers. The SAMHSA store provides a unified clearinghouse to find and order publications for customers who may be consumers, service providers or policymakers. The same information management taxonomy is used to organize and browse the store, as well as the contact center knowledge base, content management system and data warehouse for analyzing all the data produced by the SHIN operations. The SAMHSA taxonomy thus is a key component that is facilitating the information integration. This session will 1) provide an overview of the overall SAMHSA project, and then 2) describe the taxonomy design, use and maintenance processes. A short YouTube video about the project will be shown as well as a live demonstration of the publications store website. Metro and Directions: The National Transportation Library is located across the street from the Navy Yard Metro stop (Green Line). For more commuting information visit: February 22, 2011CANCELLED - TO BE RE-SCHEDULED October 12, 2010You are cordially invited to a presentation by Gail Rayburn on Tuesday, October 12th, at noon in the Department of Transportation (see directions below). If you would like to attend the presentation, please RSVP no later than October 5th to Amanda.Wilson@dot.gov with your name and employer. Presentation: Gail Rayburn is the Taxonomist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). She was hired to develop an Enterprise Thesaurus for APL. However, due to the diversity and wide range of subject domains at APL, subject matter expert review of the Thesaurus terms became mandatory. In order to minimize the impact on APL staff, it was necessary that the method of review be efficient, with minimal impact on the reviewer’s time. After an extensive search revealed no COTS products that facilitated subject matter expert review, it was decided that APL needed to create a review application. Therefore, the “Subject Matter Expert Thesaurus Review” application was created. Slides. *Photo ID is required to enter the DOT building. All visitors must check in at DOT’s West Building lobby. After entering the building, staff will escort you to Conference Room 5. Place: U.S. Department of Transportation Conference Room 5 1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E. Washington, DC 20590 Metro and Directions: The National Transportation Library is located across the street from the Navy Yard Metro stop (Green Line). For more commuting information visit http://www.rita.dot.gov/contacts/directions.html Details are also provided on the Taxonomy Tuesday wiki December 15, 2009Title: Developing An Enterprise Business Vocabulary Presenters: Shewan Workneh & Xiaoli Huang, Enterprise Information Architects, International Monetary Fund Slides When: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, from 12-2 p.m. Description: Enterprise business vocabularies (EBV) represent the system-of-record for the Fund as endorsed by the Enterprise Architecture (EA) Board: - Establishes a common semantic standard; - Maintains a central point of control over the business semantics; - Any changes should be made using the SchemaLogic tools within the relevant enterprise vocabularies, then pushed out to consuming production systems. Thus far we have modeled and developed four vocabularies: Master Countries and Entities Vocabulary, Master Regions and Groups Vocabulary, Historical Country Names Vocabulary, and Economic Concepts Vocabulary. Recently we started working on the Master Topics Vocabulary, which poses interesting challenges. In the presentation, we will talk about the strategy and approach we have taken in developing the EBV, the tool we use (SchemaLogic), the issues we have identified along the way, and the lessons we have learned. We would like to use the presentation as a prelude to engage discussions on developing centralized semantic repositories on an enterprise level. Location: Library of Congress, James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave, SE, Washington, DC. See online directions (http://www.loc.gov/visit/directions.html) to the Library and an online building map (http://www.loc.gov/visit/maps.html). The meeting will be held in LM-223, LIN Conference Room, which is on the second floor of the James Madison Building between the yellow and red corridors. RSVP: Hannah Gladfelter Rubin (hrubin at crs dot loc dot gov) September 22, 2009Lunchtime Discussion on Taxonomy Issues Description: Join colleagues interested in taxonomies for a discussion hosted by the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA). It will be an open discussion, and lunch will be provided. When: Tuesday, September 22, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Location: BNA is located in Crystal City at 1801 S. Bell Street, Arlington, VA, 22202.The building is located diagonally from the Crystal City metro exit (blue and yellow lines) on 18th Street. RSVP: E-mail Chuck Knapp (CKnapp at bna dot com) and Kathleen Caggiano (KCaggiano at bna dot com). June 16, 2009Head Start: Upgrading a Legacy Taxonomy System (Or Resuscitating a Dinosaur) Presenters: Robert G. Harp, Head Start Knowledge & Information Management Systems, and Heidi Snead, Cleverex Systems. Slides Description: A content restructuring initiative created hundreds of instances of outdated metadata in a taxonomy which no one understood, and which had not been updated in three years. What would you have done? When: Tuesday, June 16, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Location: Library of Congress, James Madison Building , 101 Independence Ave, SE , Washington , DC . See online directions (http://www.loc.gov/visit/directions.html ) to the Library and an online building map ( http://www.loc.gov/visit/maps/ ). The meeting will be held in LM-222, Meeting Room A, which is on the second floor of the James Madison Building between the yellow and red corridors. RSVP: E-mail Ammie Farraj Feijoo (afeijoo at crs dot loc dot gov). April 21, 2009Discovery Communications: Setting and Propagating Keywords February 24, 2009The ERIC Thesaurus January 13, 2009Title: Environmental Terminology Services: Creating, Maintaining, and Governing EPA Terminology 2008 September 16Title: The National Transportation Library's Maintenance and Community Vetting Process 2008 July 22Title: Relative Index Headings in the Dewey Decimal Classification: How RI Terms Relate to the DDC Schedules Presenter: Dr. Rebecca Green, Assistant Editor, Dewey Decimal Classification. Slides. Description: This presentation will introduce the basic taxonomic structure of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) and the role of its Relative Index (RI) in providing access to the DDC schedules. The presentation will then focus on a study using DDC conventions and shallow natural language processing to determine automatically whether specific RI terms approximate the whole of or are in standing room in the classes they index. When: Tuesday, July 22 from 12-2 p.m. Location: Library of Congress, James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave, SE, Washington, DC. See online directions to the Library and an online building map. The meeting will be held in LM-222, Meeting Room B, which is on the second floor of the James Madison Building between the yellow and red corridors. RSVP: Hannah Rubin (hrubin at crs dot loc dot gov) 2008 June 17Title: An Introduction to GAO's Corporate Taxonomy Project When: Tuesday, June 17 from 12-1:45 Location: Library of Congress, James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave, SE, Washington, DC. See online directions to the Library and an online building map. The meeting will be held in LM-222, Meeting Room A, which is on the second floor of the James Madison Building between the yellow and red corridors. 2008 May 20Title: Using Desktop Applications To Facilitate Taxonomy-Related Tasks Presenter: Catherine Jervey; Director, Market Planning; Legislative, Public Policy, and Historical Services; LexisNexis Academic and Library Solutions. Slides. Description: This presentation will demonstrate how LexisNexis used Excel and Access at different stages to help move forward plans to harmonize the controlled vocabulary indexing from four databases in order to facilitate users’ ability to search across a comprehensive collection of congressional data from 1789 to the present. The presenter will show the index-term look up tool in the finished product, as well as examples of the spreadsheets we used to work on our data. The presenter will also briefly explain a current project she is working on at the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) using Excel to assist in the development of a harmonized controlled vocabulary appropriate for the NTIS database. There will be time for discussion, so if you have examples of projects where desktop applications have helped you, please come prepared to share your ideas. When: Tuesday May 20 from 12-2: Location, in Bethesda: LexisNexis, 7500 Old Georgetown Rd., Bethesda, MD 20814 Directions: LexisNexis is located at 7500 Old Georgetown Road (the Clark Building) in Bethesda at the intersection of Old Georgetown Road and Wisconsin Avenue adjacent to the Bethesda Metro stop (Red Line). When you exit the Metro, come up the escalators all the way to the top and you will see the building to your left. Take the elevator to the 13th floor to the reception area. Other: Cookies and beverages will be provided. There is a deli off the main lobby on the first floor of the building. RSVP: Please RSVP by 5 pm on May 16 to Cathy Jervey (catherine dot jervey at lexisnexis dot com). 2008 April 15Title: Managing Complexity: Interface Design Approaches for Facets on the Web Presentor: Larry Lempert, Director, Product Research and Planning, BNA Inc. Slides and Facet Site List. Description: Facets can add power to a Web site taxonomy because they reflect the many ways—beyond subject matter categories—that users might think about content they’re trying to find. But building facets into site navigation is hard because the complex associations underlying faceted classification have to be presented without overwhelming the user. This presentation will look at approaches to solving the interface design challenges of using facets and will try to identify some best practices evident on the Web. (And as two facets of lunch, cookies and beverages will be provided.) When: Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 12 to 2 p.m. Location, in Crystal City: The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (BNA), Board Room, 11th Floor, 1801 S. Bell St., Arlington, VA 22202 Directions by Metro: Take either the Yellow Line or Blue Line to the Crystal City Station. BNA is the building across the street diagonally from the Metro station entrance. Enter from the courtyard and sign in with the guard in the lobby. RSVP: E-mail Larry Lempert (LLempert at bna dot com) before 5 p.m. on Friday, April 11, 2008. 2008 February 19Time: 12 to 2pm Location: Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave, SE. See online directions to the Library and an online building map. The meeting will be held in LM-316, which is on the third floor of the James Madison Building between the yellow and green corridors. RSVP: Ammie Feijoo, Office for Research, Congressional Research Service, afeijoo at crs dot loc dot gov. 202-707-7439 Announcements: TBD Presentations:
Next Meeting: March 18, 2008, at LoC Comments: Congratulations on a great site. And also a great meeting. Future Presentations:
Environmental Terminology System and Services (ETSS): Web Site
2008 January 29Time: 12 to 2pm Location: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave, SE. See online directions to the Library and an online building map. The meeting will be held in LM-215, which is on the second floor of the James Madison Building between the yellow and green corridors. RSVP: Ammie Feijoo, Office for Research, Congressional Research Service, afeijoo at crs dot loc dot gov. 202-707-7439 Announcements: USA Buzz on Congress: Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, (ID-CT) also introduced a resolution, S. RES. 401, to make the Congressional Research Service reports more accessible to the public. December 5, 2007, First MITRE KM TEM, Knowledge Management Stories from MITRE and Our Sponsors: Successes, Chanllenges, and Impact, McLean, VA. See First FEA TEM Semanticommunity.net: Community Infrastructure Sandbox for 2008 (Brand Niemann). The New Wikis: Doing Taxonomies in a Wiki!: Taxonomies for Decision-Support Information Sharing and Integration. Presentation: BrandNiemann, US EPA. A New Enterprise Information Architecture and Data Management Strategy for the U.S. Government - Part 9: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, The 2007 Statistical Abstract: The National Data Book Taxonomy Slides Suggestions:
Next Meeting: February 19th at LoC 2007 December 18Location: World Bank, Cafeteria. Subject: Informal Lunch Discussion with the Bank of Indonesia Special Unit for Information Management on Taxonomies, etc. 2007 November 13Location: World Bank, I Building. Room I 9-440. Subject: Taxonomies: Insuring Compatibility and Crosswalks RSVP: Contact Jeannette Smith at jsmith4@worldbank.org so that a badge will be waiting for you. Directions: 1850 I St NW - one block from Farrugut West Metro Presentation: This month will feature a brown bag lunch presentation by Margie Hlava brought to you by the auspices of Jan Herd of the Library of Congress. The presentation by Margie will cover the following and will be followed by a discussion. "Underlying the information architecture for web sites and search are taxonomies. The standards for thesauri, taxonomies, ontologies, semantic web and topic maps are converging. Where do they differ and where are they the same? This one hour talk will cover the ISO ANSI/NISO and W3C terminology and controlled vocabulary standards, as well as the differences in the new standards compared to the previous editions. Finally it will talk about the crosswalks and registries underway between these development communities." Some Notes:
2007 October 16Location: Congressional Research Service, located at the Library of Congress' James Madison Building (the modern 1980s building) at 101 Independence Ave SE. Room: LM-316 Subject: A discussion focused on work on the CRS search system, which integrates a taxonomy behind the scenes to improve search results. CRS maintains the taxonomy separately using a thesaurus management software that allows us to export the terms to the search system while preserving more detailed information about their work than the search platform allows. RSVP: Contact Hannah Rubin, HRUBIN@crs.loc.gov Directions: From the main entrance on Independence Ave., go straight ahead and take the elevator to the third floor and follow the green corridor to room 316. 2007 September 25Location: National Geographic Society Subject: What the National Geographic is doing with their taxonomy (ies) followed by a general discussion. RSVP: Contact Anne Marie Houppert, ahoupper@NGS.ORG 2007 June 19Location: NIH Library, the National Institutes of Health. The NIH Library is located in Building 10, the Clinical Center Subject: Robyn Becker of the IRS will be talking about her taxonomy work at the IRS, followed by an open discussion of taxonomies. 2007 May 22Note: Meeting has been postponed to Tuesday, June 19th due to unforeseen circumstances. 2007 April 17Location: World Bank, I Building, 1850 I St NW Subject: Monica Fulvio from the World Bank gave a talk entitled "Thesauri : The What, How, & Why of Thesauri." This talk had been given to Bank employees to explain-- and publicize-- the nature and importance of the Bank's Enterprise Topic Thesaurus. This included discussion about both the World Bank's Topic Thesaurus and how to pitch your taxonomy or thesaurus to your organization. 2007 March 13Thanks to everyone for coming to the first Taxonomy Tuesday of 2007! We had a lively planning discussion and many possibilities for future programs and interests. Our next meeting will be April 17 - with a topic / place / time to be announced. Possible topics for future discussion:
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