Taxonomy: Creating Knowledge from Chaos

Brief overview of taxonomies and their use in organizing information on the Internet.
http://www.it-director.com/article.php?id=1753

Managing Taxonomies Strategically

Brief article focused on helping knowledge base publishers understand how taxonomies work and how to implement them. Features related articles.
http://www.montague.com/abstracts/taxonomy3.html

Project Aristotle

Projects, research, products and services investigating or demonstrating automated Web categorization. Some prototypes and demos are available.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Aristotle.htm

Delphi Group Taxonomy and Content Classification Report

Examines software segment for taxonomy management.
http://www.delphigroup.com/coverage/taxonomy.htm

Practical Issues for Automated Categorization of Web Sites

Research paper discussing several issues related to automated text classification of web sites. Includes bibliography. By John M. Pierre.
http://www.ics.forth.gr/proj/isst/SemWeb/proceedings/session3-3/html_version/semanticweb.html

Flamenco Project

Investigates how to effectively incorporate large, faceted category hierarchies into information access user interfaces.
http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/flamenco.html

Taxonomies Are What?

Describes the use of taxonomies to organize information on the Web.
http://www.freepint.com/issues/041001.htm#feature

Word Wranglers

Surveys the rapidly changing automatic classification software market and examine the features and capabilities of leading classification products.
http://www.intelligentkm.com/feature/010101/feat1.shtml

Online Taxonomies: The Next Shift for Information Science

Briefly discusses the use of taxonomies in organizing unstructured data.
http://www.content-wire.com/Taxonomies/Index.cfm?ccs=82&cs=8

Automatic Categorization of Magazine Articles

Research paper discussing automatic categorization of magazine articles with broad subject descriptors. Focuses upon the following aspects of text classification: effective selection of feature words and proper names that reflect the main topics of the te
http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/infwet99/proceedings/moens.html

Controlled Vocabulary

Describes how controlled vocabularies are useful in describing images and information for classifying content in electronic databases. Links to sample hierarchies and controlled vocabularies. Also features links to related resources.
http://www.ControlledVocabulary.com

Organizational Theory Bibliography

Annotated list of works on classification theory, classification systems, controlled vocabularies, indexing, index design, thesaurus design, and library and information science.
http://argus-acia.com/ia_guide/subject/organizational_theory.html

Content Wire: Taxonomies

Links to articles on using taxonomies in knowledge organization.
http://www.content-wire.com/Taxonomies/Index.cfm

Practical Taxonomies

Examines the use and implementation of taxonomies to organize organizational knowledge and data.
http://www.phys.uni.torun.pl/~duch/ref/s-search/taxonomy/featureb1.htm

International Federation of Classification Societies

A federation of national, regional, and linguistically-based classification societies whose aims are to further knowledge classification research.
http://www.classification-society.org/

ASIST Special Interest Group - Classification Research

Studies the fundamental principles, underlying processes, and analytic constructs of classification schemes and procedures by humans or automata.
http://www.asis.org/AboutASIS/asis-sigs.html#SIGCR

Snowfox

Provides a web directory where links associated with a topic are placed by automatic text categorization. Includes a description of the Snowfox Relevance Engine, a white paper that can be requested on directories and an article on ten miscategorization er
http://www.snowfox.com

Taxonomy Warehouse

Directory of taxonomies, thesauri, classification schemes, and other authority files, plus information on how to license the taxonomies. Features search, browse and alert service.
http://www.taxonomywarehouse.com

EncycloZine: Content Classification Schemes

Discusses the limitations of traditional library and content classification schemes to organizing information in an electronic environment.
http://encyclozine.com/Reference/Library/Classification/

MeURLin: URL-based Classification of Web Pages

Project that attempts to classify web pages based solely on their URL. A functional demo is included.
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/meurlin/

Classification Society of North America

Scientific organization studying classification and clustering, including systematic methods for creating classification schemes from unstructured data.
http://www.classification-society.org/csna/csna.html