Copyright © 2006 Access Innovations, Inc. 1 Building Taxonomies Part 5 Alice Redmond-Neal Access Innovations, Inc. Enterprise Search Summit New York City, May 21, 2006
Copyright © 2006 Access Innovations, Inc. 2 Show ‘em what you’ve got – displays for every user Thesaurus/taxonomy views and functions depend on audience and purpose –taxonomists –indexers –corporate workers –public searchers
Copyright © 2006 Access Innovations, Inc. 3 For the taxonomist Hierarchy view Alphabetic view Permuted (KWIC) view Single term record view Graphical view Notational view Deleted terms Candidate terms Retrieve term record Find term in hierarchy view Taxonomists NEED MOST and WANT even MORE!
Hierarchy Alphabetical Permuted (KWIC) Term record
Notation view
Copyright © 2006 Access Innovations, Inc. 6 For the indexer Search to retrieve term record Access to Scope Notes, Related Terms, NonPreferred Terms Hierarchy view for the big picture Automated proposal of indexing terms
Copyright © 2006 Access Innovations, Inc. 8 For the searcher Browsable directory (Yahoo.com, MediaSleuth.com) Faceted navigation (MOMA.org, LandsEnd.com) Alpha term list or terms grouped by letter Drop down list with selected terms Portal view – complete or partial taxonomy –Display terms may be identical to taxonomy terms –Display terms may be variants, mapped to taxonomy terms Taxonomy may not be accessible – requires random guessing
Display taxonomy categories Results from sample of 1,100 documents (not all categories are populated)
Copyright © 2006 Access Innovations, Inc. 10 Reveal Narrower Terms
Copyright © 2006 Access Innovations, Inc. 11 Select taxonomy category to display titles
Copyright © 2006 Access Innovations, Inc. 12 Access full bibliographic record
Copyright © 2006 Access Innovations, Inc. 13 Faceted navigation
Copyright © 2006 Access Innovations, Inc. 14 SLA website and thesaurus
Copyright © 2006 Access Innovations, Inc. 15 SLA search
Copyright © 2006 Access Innovations, Inc. 16 Search query: THESAURUS Precision search based on M.A.I. indexing: 3 hits Free text, no indexing 0 hits Concept indexing – effect on retrieval
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Copyright © 2006 Access Innovations, Inc. 18 Leverage taxonomy term information to aid search Search: kangaroo Broader Terms Narrower Terms Related Terms Use (synonyms)
Copyright © 2006 Access Innovations, Inc. 19 Indexing rule Term record
Copyright © 2006 Access Innovations, Inc. 20 What we’ve covered Taxonomy – from different perspectives Collecting and organizing concepts Term choice and vocabulary control Taxonomy structure Term relationships Term format Factored and compound terms Constructing a simple taxonomy Display variations for different users
Copyright © 2006 Access Innovations, Inc. 21 “The Computer and the Poet” “The biggest single need in computer technology is not for improved circuitry, or enlarged capacity, or prolonged memory, or miniaturized containers, but for better questions and better use of answers.” Norman Cousins, editorial in The Saturday Review, July 23, 1966 special issue on “The New Computer Age” Through taxonomies, effectively applied through indexing, we aim to efficiently connect the questions and the answers.
Copyright © 2006 Access Innovations, Inc. 22 Thanks for your attention! Alice Redmond-Neal Access Innovations, Inc. Data Harmony software Questions? Comments?