Industry Organizations

ARMA International is a not-for-profit professional association and the authority on managing records and information:  www.arma.org

For over 60 years, AIIM has been the leading non-profit organization focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes. AIIM was founded in 1943 as the National Microfilm Association and later became the Association for Information and Image Management: www.aiim.org

The Institute of Certified Records Managers™ (ICRM) is an international certifying organization of and for professional records and information managers. The ICRM was incorporated in 1975 to create a standard designation or CRM by which persons involved in records and information management could be measured, accredited, and recognized in accord with criteria of experience and knowledge established by their peers: www.icrm.org

Taxonomy Tool

a.k.a.® Classification and Taxonomies

For designing, creating, maintaining and publishing thesauri, taxonomies, business classification schemes, file plans, and glossaries.

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Recommended Taxonomy Information Sources

• DIRKS (Designing and Implementing Recordkeeping Systems):  http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/recordkeeping/
• MOREQ - European Model Requirements for the Management of Electronic Records
• TaxoCoP (Yahoo Group) · Taxonomy Community of Practice
• Categorization of Government Information (CGI) Working Group U.S. Federal Interagency Committee on Government Information.  Working to formalize the requirements for the categorization of government information:  http://www.cio.gov/documents/icgi.html
• Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office (FEAPMO) Federal Enterprise Architecture.  Function-based hierarchical structure (Business Area/Line of Business/Sub-functions): http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/a-2-EAModelsNEW2.html
• ANSI/NISO z39.19 Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri.  Guidelines for hierarchical, relational Thesauri to serve as a controlled vocabulary and searching aid in retrieval of documents. 
• Global Information Locator Service (GILS).  Also known as Government Information Locator Service – but is not intended to be government specific.  Open standard for categorizing information.  Washington State GILS has government-specific taxonomy developed.
• UK e-Government Unit's Taxonomy Working Group.  Assist UK public sector as they plan implementation of taxonomies for use with subject metadata.
• Warehouse of taxonomies, thesauri, classification schemes:  www.Taxonomywarehouse.com 
•  Taxonomy Tools List:  http://www.taxotips.com/resources/tools/
• Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies and Organizational Effectiveness, Patrick Lambe