Organização da Informação

Information Storage and Retrieval ACM's CCS H3 category
Controlled vocabulary for Information Retrieval (form ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005)
* List: limited set of terms
* Synonym Ring: a set of terms considered equivalent for the purposes of retrieval
* Taxonomy: a set of preferred terms, all of which are connected in a hierarchy or polyhierarchy
* Thesaurus: a set of terms structured such that the various relationships among terms are displayed clearly and identified by standardized relationship indicators.

Dublin Core defines conventions for describing things online in ways that make them easy to find (@wikipedia, @NISO, @DublinCore)

Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress are systems for organizing knowlege.
www.dmoz.org is a open directory project (like yahoo directory)

A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library materials.

The NSW State Records Authority publishes the Strategies for Documenting Government Business (DIRKS) methodology and gas many practical articles like Records control and disposal using functional analysis.

Software:
* free vocabulary management: http://www.vocabularyserver.com/
* free dublin core software: http://github.com/dublincore/website
* Alfresco Record Management: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Records_Management_Primer

Examples:
* ACM IEEE taxonomy: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/publications/acmtaxonomy
* http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998/
* Directories/Taxonomies: yahoo, OpenDirectory
* Wikipedia
* the Keyword AAA Therausus
* Teaching Taxonomy Strategies


References:
Willpower,
Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries,
The business classification scheme desig,
Taxonomy Strategies,
Information and Knowledge Management