| ASIST Special Interest Group - Classification Research: Studies the fundamental principles, underlying processes, and analytic constructs of classification schemes and procedures by humans or automata. |
| Automatic Categorization of Magazine Articles: Research paper discussing automatic categorization of magazine articles with broad subject descriptors. Focuses upon the following aspects of text classification: effective selection of feature words and proper names that reflect the main topics of the text, and training of text classifiers. |
| Classification Society of North America: Scientific organization studying classification and clustering, including systematic methods for creating classification schemes from unstructured data. |
| Content Wire: Taxonomies: Links to articles on using taxonomies in knowledge organization. |
| Controlled Vocabulary: Describes how controlled vocabularies are useful in describing images and information for classifying content in electronic databases. Links to sample hierarchies and controlled vocabularies. Also features links to related resources. |
| Delphi Group Taxonomy and Content Classification Report: Examines software segment for taxonomy management. |
| EncycloZine: Content Classification Schemes: Discusses the limitations of traditional library and content classification schemes to organizing information in an electronic environment. |
| Flamenco Project: Investigates how to effectively incorporate large, faceted category hierarchies into information access user interfaces. |
| International Federation of Classification Societies: A federation of national, regional, and linguistically-based classification societies whose aims are to further knowledge classification research. |
| Managing Taxonomies Strategically: Brief article focused on helping knowledge base publishers understand how taxonomies work and how to implement them. Features related articles. |
| MeURLin: URL-based Classification of Web Pages: Project that attempts to classify web pages based solely on their URL. A functional demo is included. |
| Online Taxonomies: The Next Shift for Information Science: Briefly discusses the use of taxonomies in organizing unstructured data. |
| Organizational Theory Bibliography: Annotated list of works on classification theory, classification systems, controlled vocabularies, indexing, index design, thesaurus design, and library and information science. |
| Project Aristotle: Projects, research, products and services investigating or demonstrating automated Web categorization. Some prototypes and demos are available. |
| Taxonomies Are What?: Describes the use of taxonomies to organize information on the Web. |
| Taxonomy Warehouse: Directory of taxonomies, thesauri, classification schemes, and other authority files, plus information on how to license the taxonomies. Features search, browse and alert service. |
| Taxonomy: Creating Knowledge from Chaos: Brief overview of taxonomies and their use in organizing information on the Internet. |
| Word Wranglers: Surveys the rapidly changing automatic classification software market and examine the features and capabilities of leading classification products. |
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