Information Architecture/Taxonomist, Federal Agency, New Carrollton, MD & Washington, DC
Posted December 15, 2014
Overview:
Develop and implement new taxonomy for federal agency website. The ideal candidate will have worked with a large organization, developing a taxonomy-based information architecture that enables users to easily navigate to their content both within the site and the content management system that supports it.
Tasks:
- Interview participants/stakeholders to identify goals/needs.
- Generate complete content inventory and determine how to process inventory results.
- Analyze data collected and content inventory, determine the best implementation strategy and provide a report specifying recommendations, scope and schedule.
- Prepare and present content analysis and metadata specification.
- Develop top-level and drill-down taxonomy.
- Implement taxonomy in categorization application.
- Test and tune using statistical methodologies.
- Provide taxonomy use and maintenance guidelines
- Train users and maintainers.
- Provide tested and approved taxonomy with finalized documentation, outlining all aspects.
- Provide expertise, analysis and support to optimize the experience for users navigating and searching for information on website for a period of 6 months, post-deployment.
Deliverables include:
- Briefing presentation on metadata, taxonomies, methodologies and tools
- Content inventory spreadsheets
- Presentation on content analysis
- Comprehensive taxonomy with approx. 1500 terms and as many as 6000 nodes
- Validation of taxonomy
- Business process and documentation for maintaining taxonomy
- Training materials
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree
- 5-15 years experience in taxonomy
Please send all resumes to:
Katie Brunner