© metataxis 2012 designing the information-centric environment judi vernau, metataxis ltd july 2012...

© Metataxis 2012 Designing the information-centric environment© Metataxis 2012 Designing the information-centric environment

Judi Vernau, Metataxis LtdJudi Vernau, Metataxis Ltd

July 2012July 2012

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Classification functionality in search and browse


• How important are the traditional structures of knowledge organisation schemes in a twenty-first century organisation?

• Is a fully-ISO compliant thesaurus meet all the organisation’s requirements for findability?

‘The “scientific” sense of a taxonomy as a strict hierarchy is attractive from a distance, but rarely useful in practice when building KM taxonomies.’

Patrick Lambe, 2007

What do we need?What do we need?


What do we know?What do we know?

1.Users look for information in different ways

2.Organisations want to improve findability, but don’t want to spend years developing a full thesaurus

3.Means of communications and language itself are changing ever faster


1. Users look for information in different ways1. Users look for information in different ways

• The right thing, or known item seeking (search)

• Exploratory search (browse)

• Exhaustive research (search

and browse)

• I’ve seen you before, or re-finding

From Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, by Morville and Rosenfeld, 2007


Different ways need different semantic toolsDifferent ways need different semantic tools

MetadataControlled vocabulariesNavigational taxonomiesThesauri

Broader terms/Narrower terms (and may be explicitly displayed) Synonyms (and misspellings)Related terms (you may also be interested in…)Facets

Richer (ontological) relationships (Disease x has symptoms y)

LikeFolksonomiesSearch and navigation analyses….


2. Organisations want to improve findability, but…..2. Organisations want to improve findability, but…..

• Cost/benefit analysis for developing a full set of semantic tools is difficult to quantify

• Surely Google (or FAST or…) is all we need?

• Can we make do with a ‘one-size-fits-all’ vocabulary?


Pensions and retirement

Pensions guideAbout to retireAlready retiredCompany pensionsLeisure and recreationManaging money and debtOccupational pensionsPension creditPension scheme changesPersonal pensionsRetirement planningState pensionTax and National InsuranceWorking past retirement age

Leisure and recreation Pensions

Pension credit Pension schemes

Company pensions Occupational pensions

Personal pensionsState pension

Pensions guidePersonal finances Managing money and debt Tax and National InsuranceRetirement About to retire Already retired Retirement planning Working past retirement age


AuthorityCourses, tests and qualificationsDriving environment - Hazards - Location - Abroad - Built-up areas - Countryside - Hills - Off-road - Time of day - Traffic conditions - Weather conditionsDriving offences and penaltiesMotoringPeopleRoad signs, signals and markingsRoadsVehicles

Driving Standards AgencyDriving Standards Agency


Nutrition

Used For Nutritional status+

Narrower Term Infant nutrition

Related Term Beverages Diet Diet therapy Dietetic services Dietetics Enteral nutrition Feeding Food Food preparation Food technology Health Malnutrition Nitrogen balance Nutrients Nutrition and diet disorders Nutrition education Nutrition planning Nutrition policy Nutritional care Nutritional requirements Nutritional value

Department of Health Thesaurusc28,000 terms


nutrition BT: health behaviour NT: breastfeeding NT: healthy eating NT: malnutrition NT: maternal nutrition NT: obesity NT: overweight UF: diet RT: nutrition and blood (drug treatments) RT: nutrition disorders

NICE Taxonomyc2,600 terms


Nutrition UF: Oral nutrition BT: Health, well-being and care NT: Breast feeding Diet RT: Biology and applied life sciences Health education

Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary7,000+ terms


IPSV: Health, well-being and care > Food and drink


3. Means of communication and language itself are 3. Means of communication and language itself are always changing …always changing …

• Civil society?

• Shared services??

• Informed government???


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