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An Information Architecture Glossary for the IA Institute

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Controlled Vocabularies
Keywords	Subject Headings	Authority Files	Synonym Rings	Folksonomies
Categorization
Human-readable classification schemes
Taxonomies (hierarchical tree structures)	Thesaurus (adds relations/ associations)	Polyhierarchy (items have multiple parents)	Multiple Hierarchies	Faceted Classifications
Machine-readable classification schemes
Topic Maps	Semantic Networks		Ontologies (Semantic Web)

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