Taxonomies Webinar

Welcome

CrossRef Taxonomies Webinar

3rd March 2015

Outline

•Taxonomy Interest Group (10 mins)

•Taxonomies collaboration web site (10

mins)

•Taxonomies in Action (20 mins)

A case study from Wiley

•Questions

Speakers

•Rachael Lammey, CrossRef

•Graham McCann, IOP Publishing

•Christian Kohl, De Gruyter

•Jason Markos, Wiley

Taxonomy Interest Group

•Graham McCann

Head of Content & Platform Management,

IOP Publishing

Taxonomy Interest Group

•Launched in December

•To share experiences working with

different taxonomies for semantic

enrichment

•Members from De Gruyter, Wiley, T&F,

ACM, APA and IOP

•Supported by CrossRef

Semantics for Content

Enrichment

Automated Indexing

Subject Categorisation

Semantics for Content

Enrichment

Automated Indexing

Subject Categorisation

Taxonomies

•Knowledge Models

• Thesaurus

• Taxonomies

• Entity lists

• Registries

e.g. MESH, SNoMed, FundRef, Unified

Astronomy Thesaurus

Taxonomies

The formation of the Taxonomy

Interest GroupRealisation that many publishers had

• Investments in technology

•Created thesaurus

•Were learning about

• Thesaurus management

• Application of controlled vocabularies

• Semantic services

Taxonomy Interest Group

•Publishers to share

• Experiences

• Best practice

• Contacts

Aims

•Strengthen the infrastructure of scholarly

communications

•Create standards in adoption of

Knowledge Models

•Create a master source of Knowledge

Models for use in enrichment processes

•Create a community of publishers

Aims

•Encourage service providers to support

the industry by adopting standards and

developing new Knowledge Models where

none exist

Benefits for authors

•Standard terminology will make it easier to

prepare content, using industry-agreed

keywords and identifiers.

Benefits for discovery

•A&I services and how they ingest and

classify data

•Content vendors and how they tailor

services for publishers

•Text & Data Mining

•Shared vocabularies across publishers

How this will be achieved?

•Collaboration platform

•Discussed in our next presentation

Taxonomy collaboration web

site

•Christian Kohl

Director Information & Publishing

Technology,

De Gruyter

http://taxonomies.labs.crossref.org

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Aims

•Show which KMs are being used by

whom, how, and for what purpose

•Facilitate exchange, discussion, sharing of

experiences, standardization, best

practice

•Provide contact information

Features

•Pages for KMs and Publishers

•Comments

•KM Template

Future Developments

•Discussion features (forum)

•Add „self-service“ features

•Participation from Service Providers

• In-Person meeting around some industry

event

Contribute

•Knowledge Model Template on Website:

http://taxonomies.labs.crossref.org/?page_id=31

•Email to us, we take care of the rest

Taxonomies in Action

A case study from Wiley

•Jason Markos

Director of Knowledge Management and

Strategy,

Wiley

Implementing content enrichment

as a core competency at Wiley

Jason Markos

Content enrichment vision statement

Wiley is a digital-first information provider,

with a core competency of enriching content

to make it more valuable.

Business objectives:

•Increased relevance, discoverability and usage

•Increased credibility

•New value propositions

Content

Acquisition

Content

Management

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Development

Content

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Delivery Channels

Content Enrichment

Conceptual Architecture

Text

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Store

Enrichment

Authoring

KM

Developmen

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People Processes Technologies Knowledge Models

Baseline enrichment

Enrichm

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Discoverability

Usage

Advertising

Workflow

integration

Community

Credibility

User profiling

New product

models

Knowledge store

Framework

Prototype Enrichment

Architecture

Production Implementation

Functional Chemistry

Wiley Online Library

The Cochrane Library

Next steps

• Maximise ROI from existing infrastructure

• Increase depth, breadth and quality of enrichment

• Increase coverage

• Build new products using existing enriched

content

• Support internal e.g. editorial goals

• Development new enrichment capabilities

Questions?

Please participate:

http://taxonomies.labs.crossref.org/

Further comments and discussion: on the

Presentations tab of the site

http://taxonomies.labs.crossref.org/?page_id=123