Papers, Presentations & Patents

See Musings for Ideas and Works in Progress.

• Dr. Tom's Method of Multiples: A Concrete Taxonomy Development Method. www.twason.com/docs/MethodOfMultiples.pdf. Multiple teams, multiple participants on each team, multiple independently tasked recorders create new taxonomies and new knowledge. This method has many applications beyond metadata and taxonomies. A Dr. Tom Guide.

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• Norris, B. and Wason, T. "Air Force Institute for Advanced Distributed Learning e-CDC Transition Project, Executive Summary", http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/afiadl/ecdcproject.pdf, 18 January 2005.
   
• Cherry, A. and Wason, T. "Tag and Go Seek: Ensuring Successful Tagging, Discoverability and Reusability of Content." Paper and Presentation for the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) Conference, 2004.
   
• Wason, T., & Perrin, B. (2004) AFIADL Taxonomy Project Final Report GSA Task Order ID: 4TFG57030729 Dec. 2004 http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/afiadl/adl/TaxonomyFinalReportDec2004.pdf (select "Comments" to receive full report).
   
• Wason, T.D., Ed. (2003)." Liberty Architecture Glossary" https://www.projectliberty.org/specs/draft-lib-arch-glossary-v1.2-07.pdf
   
• Wason, T. (2002). Taxonomies: A presentation at the Army Knowledge Symposium 2002, April 1-4, 2002, Kansas City, KS.
   
• Wason, T., and Wiley, D. (2001). "Structured Metadata Spaces" in Greenberg, J.(ed.), Metadata and Organizing Educational Resources on the Internet, NY: Haworth Press . Co-published in the Journal of Internet Cataloging (2000), 3 (1-3). Invited contribution. (Draft in PDF format, also at: http://opencontent.org/docs/metadata_spaces.pdf)
   
• Wason, T. (2002). Concepts and Subjects: a white paper differentiating the two, supporting the development of concept and subject maps.
   
• Hodgins, W., Wason, T., and Duval, E. (1998). IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) Learning Object Metadata (LOM) Draft Document v2.1.
   
• Wason, T., Anderson, T., & Griffin, S. (1999). IMS XML binding of the IEEE Learning Object Metadata.
    
• Wason, T.D., Dr. Tom’s IMS Guides:

  Dr. Tom's Method of Multiples

  Dr. Tom’s Meta-data Guide

  Dr. Tom’s Taxonomy Guide

  Guía de las Taxonomies del Dr. Tom

  Dr. Tom’s Classification Guide

  Guía de Clasificación del Dr. Tom

  Dr. Tom’s XML Guide

  Guía del Dr. Tom sobre el XML

  Dr. Tom’s Guide to Content Packaging

  Dr. Tom’s Guide to a simple path to Meta-Data implementation

  Dr. Tom’s Guide to XML-Schema

  Dr. Tom’s Guide to IMS XML Extensions and Incorporations

   
  
• Wason, T.D. (1996). "The Gutenburg Juncture." The IAT Monitor, Issue #1 (A UNC-CH Insititue for Academic Technology Web Journal). http://www.unc.edu/cit/iat-archive/publications/monitor/issue1/wason.html.