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SUMMARY:Library Science Talk - Building Taxonomies from the Bottom Up and 
 Top Down
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Heather Hedden (Hedden Information Management)\n\nTh
 is Talk will take place in English exclusively on Zoom. Registration is no
 t required to attend.\nAbstract:\nThis presentation will explain the metho
 ds to design and build custom taxonomies for information retrieval. A taxo
 nomy\, as a more flexible form of thesaurus with hierarchical or categoric
 al structures\, is usually custom designed to serve a specific use case of
  a set of users and a set of content.\n As a hierarchy\, the taxonomy can 
 be built from broader to narrower terms (top down) or by grouping specific
  terms (bottom up). The taxonomy design must also consider the needs of th
 e users and the subject scope of the content.  We can also consider the a
 pproach of basing the taxonomy on content as building the taxonomy from th
 e bottom up\, and basing the taxonomy on the needs of the users as buildin
 g the taxonomy from the top down. Various techniques in gathering terms fo
 r creating a custom taxonomy will be explained\, whether the purpose for a
 n information retrieval service\, an internal enterprise taxonomy\, or for
  a library’s special collection.\nSpeaker: Heather Hedden\nHeather Hedde
 n is a taxonomy consultant\, doing business as Hedden Information Manageme
 nt\, who has been working in the field of taxonomies and metadata for over
  30 years. Previously she was employed in taxonomist roles at Northern Lig
 ht\, Enterprise Knowledge\, Semantic Web Company\, Gale/Cengage\, Viziant\
 , First Wind\, and Project Performance Corp. She taught online workshops i
 n taxonomy creation through the continuing education program of Simmons Un
 iversity School of Library and Information Science from 2006 to 2016 and c
 ontinues to o]er taxonomy training workshops through her consulting busine
 ss and other organizations and at conferences. Heather is author of The Ac
 cidental Taxonomist\, (Information Today Inc.\, 2010\, 2016\, 2022) and nu
 merous articles. She is currently a member ISO/TC 46/SC 9/WG 8 Information
  and documentation: Structured vocabularies for revision of the internatio
 nal thesaurus standard.\nThe Zentralbibliothek Zurich\, the CERN Scientifi
 c Information Service\, and AILIS (Association of International Librarians
  and Information Specialists\, Geneva) jointly organize the Library Scienc
 e Talks. A programme of talks for 2025 can be found on the AILIS website.
  \n\nhttps://indico.cern.ch/event/1680936/\n\nZoom: https://cern.zoom.us/
 j/64470934471?pwd=IwSsczm7P9UausQcdGLHxpsKGdAFaS.1
URL:https://indico.cern.ch/event/1680936/
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