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Jone Garmendia, Head of Cataloguing 25 November 2011

The National Archives Taxonomy. Jone Garmendia, Head of Cataloguing 25 November 2011. A taxonomy is a system for naming and organising things into groups that show similar characteristics. Taxonomies in the Public Sector (TIPS) http://www.nglis.org.uk/tipsben.htm.

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Jone Garmendia, Head of Cataloguing 25 November 2011

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  1. The National Archives Taxonomy Jone Garmendia, Head of Cataloguing 25 November 2011

  2. A taxonomy is a system for naming and organising things into groups that show similar characteristics. Taxonomies in the Public Sector (TIPS) http://www.nglis.org.uk/tipsben.htm

  3. A taxonomy is a collection of terms that enable the classification and grouping of content in order to support: information organisation searching information discovery/browsing website usability content reuse / serendipity

  4. Thesaurus: controlled vocabulary structured hierarchically using BT, NT, RT non-preferred terms to handle synonyms they support: Information retrieval in controlled bibliographic databases authority files expansion of search

  5. Ontologies High level intellectual frameworks to organise information representing concepts, entities and their relationships used in information science to support: software engineering the semantic web

  6. People create/own are active in Take part in Places Records/Assets are located in are used in / can trigger take place in Events

  7. A taxonomy is a system for naming and organising things into groups that show similar characteristics. Taxonomies in the Public Sector (TIPS) http://www.nglis.org.uk/tipsben.htm

  8. http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk

  9. We have not catalogued entries manually Subject research: words lists Building Boolean Queries within the Search Engine

  10. marriage marital “marry” “marries” “married” matrimony matrimonial jactitation betrothal dowry jointure alimony curtesy wedding adultery, adulterous nuptial spouse wedlock conjugal certificate of no impediment re-marriage, remarriage… mainenance order Maintenance Order Acts… bigamy, bigamous, polygam* common law wife/husband husband/wife divorce, decree nisi, decree absolute Word Lists and ‘synonyms

  11. search engine index taxonomy management software taxonomist generates query xml export tagging process categorisation engine new index Data flow back (with tags) xml tagged data new index

  12. Testing and tuning Beta release April 2011 Taxonomy testing Multiple tagging Precision and relevancy of subject tags Recall: working to provide subjects for the untagged

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