Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Website -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: What Are Taxonomies? -- Definitions and Types of Taxonomies -- Applications and Purposes of Taxonomies -- Taxonomies for License -- History of Taxonomies -- Chapter 2: Who Are Taxonomists? -- Backgrounds of Taxonomists -- Taxonomist Skills -- Related Duties -- Employment of Taxonomists -- Chapter 3: Creating Terms -- Concepts and Terms -- Identifying Concepts -- Choosing the Preferred Term -- Term Format -- Precoordinated Terms -- Notes and Attributes -- Chapter 4: Creating Relationships -- Equivalence Relationships and Nonpreferred Terms -- Hierarchical Relationships -- Associative Relationships -- Hierarchical/Associative Ambiguities -- Semantic Variations for Relationships -- Chapter 5: Software for Taxonomy Creation and Management -- Software Not Designed for Creating Taxonomies -- Thesaurus Software -- Single-User Desktop Thesaurus Software -- Large-Scale Thesaurus Systems -- Free and Open Source Software -- Other Software With Taxonomy Management Components -- Chapter 6: Taxonomies for Human Indexing -- What Is Human Indexing? -- Terms, Relationships, and Notes for Indexers -- Taxonomy Structure and Indexing Interface -- Taxonomy Updates and Quality Control -- Managing Folksonomies -- Chapter 7: Taxonomies for Automated Indexing -- Automated Indexing, Search, and Taxonomies -- Automated Indexing Technologies -- Software for Auto-Categorization -- Creating Taxonomies for Automated Indexing -- Chapter 8: Taxonomy Structures -- Hierarchies -- Facets -- Multiple Vocabularies and Categories -- Chapter 9: Taxonomy Displays -- Thesaurus Displays -- Hierarchical Taxonomy Displays -- Fielded Search Displays -- Chapter 10: Taxonomy Planning, Design, and Creation -- Planning for a Taxonomy -- Enterprise Taxonomies.

Taxonomy Creation Process -- Taxonomy Governance -- Chapter 11: Taxonomy Implementation and Evolution -- Taxonomy Interoperability -- Taxonomy Updating -- Combining Taxonomies -- Multilingual Taxonomies -- Chapter 12: Taxonomy Work and the Profession -- The Nature of Taxonomy Work -- Taxonomists as Contractors -- Education and Training -- Organizations, Networking, and Resources -- Appendix A: Survey of Taxonomists -- Appendix B: Glossary -- Appendix C: Recommended Reading -- Appendix D: Websites -- About the Author -- Index.