From Margie Hlava and Janice Keeler:
... We are already working with the IT and KM Divisions to reconcile some known overlaps in scope notes, but if any other divisions have any issues, we need to know ASAP. Leadership – please distribute this note to your units to let them know of the proposed new division and also to tell people they are welcome to join us in Washington DC to discuss taxonomy and meta data
issues and the proposed new division.
Scope Note and Business Case for the New Division: The business case for the new division is attached and posted on the SLA wiki site.
The proposed scope note is: The Taxonomy and Meta Data Division (TMD) addresses meta data contained in taxonomies, thesauri, authority files, and other controlled vocabularies. Areas of interest include:
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Standards, governance and management issues for all types of controlled vocabularies
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Issues associated with the creation, capture, delivery, structure, and use (such as in search) of controlled vocabularies and meta data for all information object types.
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Trends such as the development of the semantic web, ontologies, folksonomies and other tagging methodologies.
Meetings in Washington, DC, June 14: We are having a meeting for anybody interested in taxonomy on Sunday, June 14, from 3-5 p.m. in Room 145B of the convention center. This session is not part of the official program, and will not show up in the online planner.
Agenda:
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organizational issues related to the attempt to form a new division
- discussion of taxonomy issues of interest to participants
Assuming we can reconcile all overlapping scope note issues with other divisions, we will send out a petition to form the new division via SurveyMonkey shortly after the conference. If anybody wants to discuss this with us before or during the conference, please contact us.
Regards,
Margie Hlava, [email protected] 505-975-5578 cell
Janice Keeler, [email protected], 312-573-2813 (work),
773-251-9373 (cell). I’ll be in Washington as of June 12.