The Special Libraries Association (SLA), a non-profit organisation, has announced the formation of a new professional interest division that will focus on issues related to planning, creating, maintaining and using taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, authority files, and other controlled vocabularies and information structures. The Taxonomy Division of SLA will provide information professionals interested in these topics a focused professional home-base within SLA, cutting-edge learning opportunities and access to a global network of colleagues.
SLA is organised into divisions representing subject interests, fields or types of information-handling techniques. SLA Divisions conduct professional development, networking and knowledge programmes during the Association's Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO. The new Taxonomy Division will join the ranks of functional, cross-industry professional interest groups such as the knowledge management, competitive intelligence and information technology divisions.
The division will focus its professional development and networking activities around strategies to organise and structure information so that content is accessible and useful. The division's focus encompasses traditional and emerging approaches to organising information, and the full range of settings in which taxonomies are applied. Areas of interest include strategies for planning and creating taxonomies; implementation, maintenance, and use of controlled vocabularies for all types of information and all relevant contexts; standards, governance, and management of taxonomies and other controlled vocabularies; and new and emerging approaches to organising information, such as the semantic web, ontologies, folksonomies, and tagging, including relationships between user-generated tags and formal controlled vocabularies.
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