The Tools Behind the Tags

Taxonomy@IIP

Taxonomy Bootcamp 2014

Who Am I?

Current: Senior Experience Analyst at Phase2

Former: IA/Taxonomist at Department of State (CTC)

Jami Ansell

Project Goals

Provide enhanced access to all department content products via consistent, subject-

based metadata.

● Define Scope/Purpose for Vocabularies● Create Base Vocabularies ● Draft Classification Rulebases

Method

Automate*

Method

*Automation Doesn’t Actually

MeanLess Work for Anyone

So Why Automate?

1. Controlled vocabularies are only truly valuable if they are consistently and predictably applied

2. Ease of updates

3. Translations!

Browse Lists

Lists are refreshed every night and reflect minimum criteria for inclusion on home page browse list.

Lists are subsets of IIP Taxonomy project vocabularies.

http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/

Search Results

Browse options lead to Search Results pages, presenting content sorted by date with options for further refinement.

Tags pages

Every tag that has any content associated with it is exposed via the Tags page.

Feeds

Tags pages are feeds direct from the database.

Tools behind the Taxonomy

Taxonomy Management Software +Integrated, API-enabled Automated Indexing Tool+API-enabled Content Repository

Successful Automation requires Transparency

Taxonomy Project Tools

https://dharmony-test.cms.getusinfo.com/tagsview/topics/index.html/

https://dharmony-test.cms.getusinfo.com/tagsview/orgs/index.html/

https://dharmony-test.cms.getusinfo.com/tagsview/people/index.html/

https://dharmony-test.cms.getusinfo.com/tagsview/geolocations/index.html/

Full HTML versions of the vocabularies are available to stakeholders for review at any time.

Frequency report show how the IIP Taxonomy is applied to all docs. Can be viewed by Project or cumulatively. Can be sorted by term or by # of documents.

The Frequency report API is the basis for the Browse Lists.

Stakeholders can submit any text to see how IIP Taxonomy terms would be applied.

Available for both dev & production versions of the vocabularies and rulebases.

https://dharmony.cms.getusinfo.com/tagsviewer/index.html/

Comparison reports show how the IIP Taxonomy was applied compared to the terms applied by authors and OpenCalais.

Next…Workflow Sketches for Translations Application

Questions?