Children’s Representations of Taxonomic Categories for Application in a Web Portal: An Exploratory Study

Abstract

This paper presents an exploratory study of four children who were asked to use concept-mapping techniques to arrange 60 concepts in a hierarchical taxonomy. It represents a step towards better understanding children's categorization in order more effectively to construct taxonomic subject directories for use by children on the Web.Résumé : Cette communication présente une étude exploratoire effectuée auprès de quatre enfants à qui on a demandé d'utiliser les techniques de correspondance conceptuelle pour organiser 60 concepts en une taxinomique hiérarchique. Ceci représente la première étape vers une meilleure compréhension de la catégorisation des enfants, afin de construire un répertoire taxinomique de sujets plus efficace utilisé par les enfants sur le web.

Children's perceptual cognitive factors in book selection and metadata schema: Pilot study

“…Previous studies using cognitive approaches for children's libraries tend to be concerned about categorization and naming processes rather than perception processes. The studies about categorization for children's libraries examine how children structure concepts on web directories or libraries (Bar‐Ilan & Belous 2007; Bilal & Wang 2005; Cooper 2002a, 2002b, 2004; Large et al, 2007). Bar‐Ilan and Belous (2007) and Bilal and Wang (2005) give children specific concepts selected by researchers, whereas Cooper (2002b) leads children to suggest what a library should include.…”