Taxonomy Standards and Location

Taxonomy building, dealing with Location
Ron Daniel
rdaniel@taxonomystrategies.com
Taxonomy Strategies

Helped define the Dublin Core

8 common taxonomy facets
Organization
Content Type
Industry
Locations
Function
Topics
Audience
Products and Services

Don’t make more lists, relate the data sets and map into the same taxonomy. Use fewer lists.
People use location lists all the time, and they often mean different things. This makes it hard to interrelate things, since they have different reasons for calling the different things by the same name.
Great slide on what makes a good taxonomy – look for it when the deck is published

Using ISO 3166 for location
Breaks into Countries Sub-regions Changes
Source is the UN statistics Division
They have a standard for unassigned regions

Automatic Classification: Some facets are easier to auto classify than others. Entity classification goes fairly well. Subject, less so.