Automatic Categorisation and Controlled Vocabularies: Part 1. Graeme Cox Intology coxy@intology.com.au.

Automatic Categorisation and

Controlled Vocabularies:

Part 1.Graeme Cox

Intology

coxy@intology.com.au

The Journey

• Started 1994

• Paper to electronic – Access– Cost Benefits

• Early web site– Diverse audiences– Right content

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• Portal– Standardised language– Automated processes

• Barriers– Thought we knew but we don’t– Understanding is not shared

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• Opportunity– Understand and– document an organisations

LANGUAGE

Language is ... Empowering

...Transferable

... andEvolving

Capturing and masteringyour language can

however be a problem

that’s why we createdtools that help

Mastering a language

MOO(terminology)

Do you meanMaterial On Order?

(Acronym)

No! Silly!Mothers Opposed

to the Occult.(Alternative meanings)

I’ll put thatunder MOO then.

(Taxonomy)That’s right, MOO is the preferred term.

(Thesaurus)

The Process

Understand Your Holdings

“The cow that readssucceeds”

Herd not big enough to read it all?Klarity KeyWord can help:

Key words and phrasesAcronyms and meaning

Slicing and Dicing

Slicing and Dicing

Building A Taxonomy

“Milking with suctionhelps construction”(machines have become an essential component in achieving efficiency)

KTB helps with taxonomy and thesaurus: Documents term relationships You’re in control, more efficient and easy

The Right Tools

Klarity, Feature Parser and …: Classification tools and a lot more

Reaping the rewards

Standards compliance Health Insight Metadata Standard

Taxonomies & classification Improving access for a range of audiences

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Removing duplication One copy is enough

Language Management More than language

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Data quality Making sense of terrorism

DB to Graphic Design Realising the dream

Graeme Cox

Intology

coxy@intology.com.au

Go ahead, rake my hay and ask a question!