Taxomony

User experience (UX) focuses on having a deep understanding of users, what they need, what they value, their abilities, and also their limitations. 

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Web resources

• Taxonomy Warehouse (includes many resources in addition to the directory of available taxonomies)

• Hedden Information Management (page of presentations, many of which are PDFs for downloading)

• Taxonomy Strategies (another taxonomy consultancy with good resources on its web site)

• Online Thesauri and Authority Files (American Society for Indexing)

Books

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• Hedden, Heather (2016). The Accidental Taxonomist, 2nd edition. Medford, NJ: Information Today Inc.

• Lambe, Patrick (2007). Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness. Oxford, England: Chandos Publishing.

• Abbas, June (2010). Structures for Organizing Knowledge. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers.

• ANSI/NISO Z39.19 (2005). Guidelines for Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies. Bethesda, MD: NISO Press. (link to PDF in course files)

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