EDUCAUSE | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; and Taxonomies

Overcoming Information Overload

drupal — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:42:05 -0600

Taxonomies organize your information for more efficient retrieval and better topic insight. Here's how to choose the best approach to building a better taxonomy.

Managing Taxonomies Strategically

drupal — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:30:55 -0500

This article provides an overview of taxonomies, what they are, and how they are used.

Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! Making sense of it all

drupal — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:35:08 -0500

To be faced with a document collection and not to be able to find the information you know exists somewhere within it is a problem as old as the existence of document collections. Information Architecture is the discipline dealing with the modern version of this problem: how to organize web sites so that users actually can find what they are looking for.

Information architects have so far applied known and well-tried tools from library science to solve this problem, and now topic maps are sailing up as another potential tool for information architects. This raises the question of how topic maps compare with the traditional solutions, and that is the question this paper attempts to address.

The paper argues that topic maps go beyond the traditional solutions in the sense that it provides a framework within which they can be represented as they are, but also extended in ways which significantly improve information retrieval.

The Speed of Information Architecture

drupal — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 13:57:50 -0500

The author discusses the use of information architecture and taxonomy when creating web sites.

"Assess How Much Technology Use Helps Education? Helps It How? A Taxonomy of Goals for Using (and Assessing) IT"

drupal — Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:17:16 -0600

One way to focus either an educational use of technology or a study of that application is to clarify the educational goals for using the technology. Of all the educational improvements that might stem from this use of technology, which are the most important to assess? To help focus on specific outcomes, it helps to have a vocabulary -- a taxonomy of different types of outcomes that are especially pertinent to technology use. This article describes two taxonomies that together provide useful starting points for clarifying educational outcomes of technology use.