Examples of Controlled Vocabularies, Keyword, Hierarchical ...
The New Zealand "Time Frames" photo index is a good example of how a controlled vocabulary hierarchy can be used to catalog photographs. . The American Society of Indexers has a list of many other thesauri that are available online. Claudio Gnoli has put a copy of Ranganathan's Colon Classification online for you to peruse.
How to use a Controlled Vocabulary, Keyword, Hierarchical ...
If you don't have some organizational "hierarchy" in place for describing your subjects, my first suggestion would be to create your own "keyword thesaurus" using your own "controlled vocabulary" that works as part of your own "dewey decimal system" for images. The Library of Congress Classification Outline is a good start.
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The Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalog
A controlled vocabulary can be useful in describing images and information when organizing and classifying content for image databases. The Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalog for Adobe Lightroom 1.1+ (including ver. 2.x, 3.x 4.x 5.x 6.x & CC)
Controlled Vocabulary: your site for information on Keyword ...
It's difficult to say whether controlled vocabulary or natural language systems give the best retrieval performance. Free Text or Natural Language systems often provide more results in a shorter time span because you are searching all the fields of a given database (the Google search engine is a form of free text search).
Caption and Keywording Guidelines - Controlled Vocabulary
What larger grouping does this subject belong to? (Example, a cat is also a mammal, a pet, and an animal) Consider the use of a Controlled Vocabulary. What is the subject of the image doing? Is the subject motionless or is it engaged in some action or activity (running, jumping, bowling)? What is the subject like?
Download the Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalog
The current version of the Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalog (CVKC) available for download is 3.0. A PDF listing the additions since version 2.0 was released is available for download at the bottom of this page (username / password required for access).
Metalogging: Keywording images in an image database
In the long run, using a controlled vocabulary (or creating your own) is the only way to ensure that you consistently include the same cluster of core terms to similar images. The IPTC Keyword is a multi-value field
Using the IPTC Subject Scene and Genre codes ... - Controlled …
Answer (shortened version): When it's a term from a formally structured controlled vocabulary designed for a specific use with it's own designated field for storage. Answer (Longer version): In terms of the IPTC Core, there are three formally structured controlled vocabularies referred to as the IPTC Subject, Scene and Genre Codes.
The Controlled Vocabulary Discussion Forum:
The Controlled Vocabulary group is for people who wish to engage in discussions related to the use of Controlled Vocabularies, Hierarchies, Thesauri, and Classification schemes used in databases, with a specific interest in image databases.