From Taxonomy to Ontology | SLA Learning Hub

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Description

While taxonomies support findability and information retrieval, ontologies support additional information retrieval methods, such as enabling complex queries, the exploration of different relationships, and quick access to associated data, and not just content. The Semantic Web standards, upon which modern information ontologies are built, have brought ontologies more closely aligned to taxonomies and other knowledge organization systems, than the merely computer science use of ontologies of the past. Integrating ontologies with taxonomies has many practical applications, which increasingly more companies and organizations are implementing. This educational session teaches the fundamental principles of ontologies for information science, including their definitions, types, standards, benefits, and uses, including knowledge graphs. It then instructs by ways of examples, how to extend a taxonomy to become an ontology, and then addresses issues in modeling and designing ontology classes, relations, and attributes, including best options and practices. Tools and technologies will also be addressed.

Contributors

Heather Hedden

Heather Hedden has been a practicing taxonomist for 25 years in various organizations and as an independent consultant with Hedden Information Management. She has designed and developed diverse taxonomies for websites, intranets, and content management systems. After starting her career as an indexer/abstractor, Heather has worked as a taxonomist in a library database publisher (Gale), a search software company, a wind energy company, a knowledge management consultancy, and an educational publisher. In addition to consulting, she provides online workshops on how to design and build taxonomies. Heather is the author of the book, The Accidental Taxonomist.