Creating a Controlled Vocabulary
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Fast, Karl, Fred Leise and Mike Steckel
Boxes and Arrows
2003

Abstract:

You have probably heard information architects discussing the benefits of their latest taxonomy project and how you should be implementing one. But how, you might wonder, can you get started? In the next installment about Controlled Vocabularies, our authors go into detail about one methodology.