[Sigia-l] An introduction & question

[James Melzer]

Yeah, I don't there is a single book that will solve your problem.
There is a ton of good taxonomy material online, of course [see
http://del.icio.us/jamesmelzer/taxonomy], although relatively little
of it is specific to portals. I just found a group of good whitepapers
from SAP on portal-specific IA [see
http://del.icio.us/jamesmelzer/sap]. Plumtree has a ton of whitepapers
on their customer support site. I don't remember seeing any that were
relevant to your problem, though.

~ James


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James Melzer

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On 8/18/05, Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi and welcome,
> 
> Fortune Elkins <fortune_elkins at summithq.com> wrote:
> > Obviously the famed "polar bear" book isn't going to do it for me
> > anymore. What's currently the best book on developing a serious taxonomy
> > for what is going to be a very large site?
> 
> Ooo, a question about taxonomies, how can I not answer?
> 
> As always on this list (well, mostly), it depends on what you're
> after; how will it be maintained, what's its purpose, your own
> experience, your thoughts on applicability, what sort of taxonomy,
> etc, and so forth.
> 
> I can't right now point to any specific book on taxonomies and say
> "here, use this" because taxonomies and the way we apply them have
> changed quite dramatically with new technology (unless you're setting
> out to do another Dewey Decimal Catalogue). I think my best advice is
> to simply catch up on the latest thoughts in semantic mapping (RDF,
> Topic Maps, FRBR, XFML, etc) on technology (which I have several books
> I can point you to) and strict/loose taxonomies (folksonomies,
> tagsonomies, faceted versions thereof, etc) in thinking. (And if
> anyone have pointers to one book that covers these things, let me know
> too!)
> 
> If you want a book that gives you a receipt for creating a strict
> taxonomies for any given purpose, you might as well just focus on
> card-sorting or similar; strict taxonomies will get you so far but
> never all the way.
> 
> But I'm quite sure thought, that with a name like yours, things will
> work out. :)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alexander
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