Taxing II

Ok. It’s not so big and skeery as I thought it was. It’s still big and skeery, but this particular project is not — in large part because we’re just entering terms & most of everything is pretty much decided (pretty much…) decided already.

As it turns out of the 110 give/take-a-few vocabularies in the taxonomy manager, we only “own” about fourteen, two or three of which we share with another group. This project, in which we’re entering around 1500 authoritative terms & their entry terms (sometimes none, sometimes 4 or more) are primarily being entered in three vocabularies (or rather one term goes into one of the three vocabs). This narrows the scope down quite a lot. I am so hugely relieved.

On to adding agent, AIFF/Audio Interchange File Format, alert box, algorithm, alignment, allocation… and all their entry terms. Yay!

In other news, I got momentarily really excited that the UW is going to be offering a masters in computational linguistics and then I decided that no matter how useful/interesting that might be eventually, that perhaps I’d get used to my MLIS & the ungraded life again for a bit before racking up yet another year’s worth of master’s debt. Heh.