Perhaps you have been tasked with creating a controlled vocabulary from scratch, but don’t know where to begin. Or maybe your organization has a legacy taxonomy, but it desperately needs to be updated, since no one actually finds it useful. What’s an info pro to do?
This webinar will cover an underutilized resource – the folder structure – that can provide a rich folksonomy of organization-specific vocabulary and concepts if you just know where to look.
Folder structures, both ones on shared network drives, in cloud-based systems like SharePoint or Google Drive, or on individual desktops, are rich sources of user-generated, organized information that are largely unused by many findability solutions.
This webinar will discuss:
- The general function of a taxonomy and other KOSs (knowledge organization systems) in the organization
- The conflict between how knowledge workers create information, and how they expect to find it
- How to find, read, and normalize folder structures to create useful folksonomies
- Iterating on those folksonomies to create/update formal taxonomies