The National Archives Taxonomy Jone Garmendia Head of

A taxonomy is a system for naming and organising things into groups that show

A taxonomy is a collection of terms that enable the classification and grouping of

Thesaurus: Ø Ø controlled vocabulary structured hierarchically using BT, NT, RT non-preferred terms to

Ontologies Ø High level intellectual frameworks to organise information Ø representing concepts, entities and

People are active in Places create/own Take part in are located in take place

http: //labs. nationalarchives. gov. uk/ wordpress/index. php/2010/09/impr oving-search/#more-292 11

Ø We have not catalogued entries manually Ø Subject research: words lists Ø Building

Word Lists and ‘synonyms marriage marital “marry” “marries” “married” matrimony matrimonial jactitation betrothal dowry

search engine index new index taxonomy management software tagging process xml export categorisation engine

Testing and tuning Ø Ø Ø Beta release April 2011 Taxonomy testing Multiple tagging

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The National Archives Taxonomy Jone Garmendia, Head of Cataloguing 25 November 2011

A taxonomy is a system for naming and organising things into groups that show similar characteristics. Taxonomies in the Public Sector (TIPS) http: //www. nglis. org. uk/tipsben. htm 3

A taxonomy is a collection of terms that enable the classification and grouping of content in order to support: • information organisation • searching • information discovery/browsing • website usability • content reuse / serendipity 4

Thesaurus: Ø Ø controlled vocabulary structured hierarchically using BT, NT, RT non-preferred terms to handle synonyms they support: o Information retrieval in controlled bibliographic databases o authority files o expansion of search 5

Ontologies Ø High level intellectual frameworks to organise information Ø representing concepts, entities and their relationships Ø used in information science to support: o software engineering o the semantic web 6

People are active in Places create/own Take part in are located in take place in Events 7 Records/Assets are used in / can trigger

A taxonomy is a system for naming and organising things into groups that show similar characteristics. Taxonomies in the Public Sector (TIPS) http: //www. nglis. org. uk/tipsben. htm 8

http: //labs. nationalarchives. gov. uk/ wordpress/index. php/2010/09/impr oving-search/#more-292 11

Ø We have not catalogued entries manually Ø Subject research: words lists Ø Building Boolean Queries within the Search Engine 12

Word Lists and ‘synonyms marriage marital “marry” “marries” “married” matrimony matrimonial jactitation betrothal dowry jointure alimony curtesy wedding adultery, adulterous nuptial spouse wedlock conjugal certificate of no impediment re-marriage, remarriage… mainenance order Maintenance Order Acts… bigamy, bigamous, polygam* common law wife/husband/wife divorce, decree nisi, decree absolute

search engine index new index taxonomy management software tagging process xml export categorisation engine Data flow back (with tags) xml tagged data new index 19 taxonomist generates query

Testing and tuning Ø Ø Ø Beta release April 2011 Taxonomy testing Multiple tagging Precision and relevancy of subject tags Recall: working to provide subjects for the untagged