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BUILDING THE NASA TAXONOMY: A WAY TO UNIFY THE NASA INFORMATION SPACE
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is composed of more than a dozen separate Centers that engage in a variety of technological activities with missions and projects that reflect their specialized work. Technical communities across the Agency utilize highly evolved engineering and scientific vocabularies that reflect the nature of their disciplines. These vocabularies are often arcane and not easily translated by personnel outside a particular community of practice. This situation has tended to fragment information produced by NASA personnel. The goal behind building and adopting an agency-wide NASA Taxonomy was to develop a consistent framework for handling NASA’s electronic content, and to make it easy for various audiences to find all the relevant information from all the NASA programs quickly.
This talk looks back at a Taxonomy Strategies project to work with NASA to develop a taxonomy and metadata standard meant to act as a classification scheme encompassing all of NASA Web content, including internal as well as external materials. The taxonomy provided a framework for tagging NASA Web material so that they could be used and reused in different applications such as the NASA portal and its supporting systems, the NASA search engine, and the NASA Web Site Registration System. In 2008, Taxonomy Strategies was presented with an award from the NASA CIO for “providing major support on the NASA Taxonomy Task with expertise and knowledge on topics of vocabularies and metadata.”
This talk looks back at a Taxonomy Strategies project to work with NASA to develop a taxonomy and metadata standard meant to act as a classification scheme encompassing all of NASA Web content, including internal as well as external materials. The taxonomy provided a framework for tagging NASA Web material so that they could be used and reused in different applications such as the NASA portal and its supporting systems, the NASA search engine, and the NASA Web Site Registration System. In 2008, Taxonomy Strategies was presented with an award from the NASA CIO for “providing major support on the NASA Taxonomy Task with expertise and knowledge on topics of vocabularies and metadata.”
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About the Speaker
Joseph Busch is the Founder and Principal Consultant at Taxonomy Strategies. For the past 14 years Taxonomy Strategies has been guiding organizations such as Deloitte, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in developing frameworks that help improve information capture, preservation, search, retrieval, and governance. Mr. Busch is a past President of the Association for Information Science and Technology, past member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Executive Committee, and member of the Advisory Board for the Innovations in Knowledge Organisation Conference. |
event materials
Here are Joseph Busch's slides for the talk. Download here.
Here are the follow-up questions posted after the talk, and Joseph's replies. Download here.
The video of his talk is in three parts:
Part 1: Introduction: what is a knowledge organisation system?
Part 2: Challenges and purposes of the NASA taxonomy
Part 3: Structure and benefits of the NASA taxonomy
Here are the follow-up questions posted after the talk, and Joseph's replies. Download here.
The video of his talk is in three parts:
Part 1: Introduction: what is a knowledge organisation system?
Part 2: Challenges and purposes of the NASA taxonomy
Part 3: Structure and benefits of the NASA taxonomy
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