December 17, 2002

Controlled Vocabularies

The first installment in the Boxes and Arrows series on Faceted Classification and Controlled Vocabularies has hit the (virtual) streets: What Is A Controlled Vocabulary? The authors give a nice overview of the world of CV, including taxonomies, thesauri, authority files, and other things that excite the librarian in all of us. But seriously, a good CV can make a site's navigation and search really shine.