FW: [Sigia-l] Metadata & Taxonomies

[Marcel van Mackelenbergh]

Katie,
> 
> > I need to outline a plan from start to finish for
> > integrating a taxonomy and creating metadata standards for a 
> > very large in-house content management system containing 
> > every type of digital asset for multiple purposes. 
> 
> There is a great course from Adaptive Path that i think you 
> will find useful: 
> http://www.adaptivepath.com/events/training/construct/files.php

1. First I would sketch the situations (user scenario's) in which
finding is important. 
2. From these situations I would deduct the relevant metadata that help
the target audience to select relevant information. 
3. Then I would pick out the metadata that cost the least to produce 4.
I would allow the user to search using automatic classificatiion in
order to improve precision and recall 5. Finally, I would offer the
search result in a faceted classification, enabling the user to benefit
from the metadata you selected in step 3.

For an example of the combination of automatic classification with
faceted classification, I created this (I hope you can read through the
dutch): www.marcelvanmackelenbergh.nl/ictu.htm (is a redirect to my
server) Some of the indexed webpages contain metadata. These metadata
you will see on the left in a faceted classification.

For some thoughts about different types of metadata and how to create
them, I created a PDF:
www.marcelvanmackelenbergh.nl/Metadata,_why_and_how.pdf

Good luck!

Marcel