The Department of Health & Human Services needed to support the Health Information Technology Act by providing a knowledge sharing environment that had a robust knowledge domain taxonomy. They wanted a solution for creating and assigning metadata in a Wiki –based Community of Practice environment to be used by a broad range of healthcare, government and technology audiences.
Through a combination of working sessions, interviews and content discovery searches, the Earley Information Science team developed and documented a multi-faceted taxonomy covering all of health information technology. EIS introduced the Knowledge Sharing Network development team to principles of taxonomy and solicited validation of an improved vocabulary for its scope and potential reuse across ONC initiatives. The team delivered workshops and demonstrations on taxonomy, SharePoint search integration, faceted search and principles of governance.
- Proposed tagging methods and development options for integrating faceted taxonomy into document submission and user interfaces.
- Proposed metadata schema and taxonomy-based network folder mapping options for Wiki environment.
- Provided the faceted taxonomy framework for ONCs multi-dimensional Knowledge Sharing Network.
