Building on today’s keynote, this session features two perspectives on learning to develop taxonomies to maximise their usefulness, whether this is for information access, resource discovery or other applications. One is a beginner’s personal journey, the second a deep dive from an experienced practitioner and technologist.

Businesses sometimes regard taxonomy and tagging as a kind of magic bullet to improve search implementation. But even more than this, the power of structuring metadata can lead to exciting possibilities for applications in knowledge management, collaborative tools, and compliance, among others.

The common theme to each of these talks is how taxonomies can be the engines for smart, dynamic management of content and metadata; driving websites, content management systems and more. The session covers XML, ontologies and linked data – all vital technologies that taxonomists should be able to understand and exploit.

Text analytics, automatic tagging, auto-categorisation – however you want to label it, there’s no denying it is one of the hottest topics in information management at the moment. These talks illustrate how taxonomies can be enhanced through the use of search technology, APIs and categorisation rules in order to provide tagging at scale to large, diverse information sources.

An invaluable session for anyone involved with selecting technology to manage taxonomies and/or tagging. There is a crowded marketplace out there, but every organisation has its particular requirements and unique needs. These talks make it easy to read between the lines of hype and help your selection process based on features, vendor support, implementation, cost-effectiveness and more.

Thesauri and terminology repositories are widely used in academic publishing and research, where there is an obvious need for application of controlled vocabulary for retrieval, navigation, pattern analysis, sharing of knowledge organisation systems etc. These two case studies come from the world’s largest publisher of open access science articles, and the University Library of Basel, respectively.