Information Organization

Slinky in Original Box

• Title for object: Slinky
• Brief Description of Object: Metal or plastic children’s toy that expands and contracts like an accordion and has the ability to walk down the stairs.
• Vocabulary List: coil spring, Slinky, walking toy, rainbow coil, original, box, first edition, vintage 

Barrel of Monkeys

• Title for object: Barrel of Monkeys
• Brief Description of Object: This children’s toy is a pile of plastic monkeys. The object of the game is to pick up as many monkeys as you can by interconnecting their arms and tails. Comes with a barrel for storing the monkeys when not in use.
• Vocabulary List: pile, monkeys, arms, animals, plastic monkeys, tails, pick-up, barrel

Pirate Potato Head

• Title for object: Mr. Potato Head Pirate
• Brief Description of Object: The classic Mr. Potato Head is now a pirate. It includes mix and match pieces to create the pirate of your imagination.
• Vocabulary List: spud, potato, pirate, head, mix and match, pieces, Mr., body parts, removable, mixable,

Rubik’s Cube

• Title for object: Rubik’s Cube
• Brief Description of Object: Puzzle with various combinations to solve. The point of the puzzle is to get all the same color tiles on each of the six sides.
• Vocabulary List: rubic, rubicks, rubiks, cube, puzzle, color squares, mind teaser, brain puzzle, speed cube, moves, combinations, tiles, twist and turn, twisty, color tiles, colors

Magic 8 Ball in Box

• Title for object: Magic 8 Ball
• Brief Description of Object: This Magic 8 Ball can tell you the future. Ask it a questions, shake it up, and flip over to see a variety of answers.
• Vocabulary List: 8 ball, pool ball, magic, shake ball, questions, answers, answer ball, box, die of answers

Sorry Board Game

• Title for object: Sorry Game
• Brief Description of Object: The game of sweet revenge. Players take turns trying to get their four pieces back home to the safe zone without being bumped back to go.
• Vocabulary List: sorry, pawns, revenge, slide, family game night, color pawns, sorry!, board game

I actually found this exercise really fun. I have some experience with SEO so it was neat to put it to use with this assignment. It was hard to come up with a complete list of words that may be used to search for some of these items. I tried to think of words that I would use to describe the item if I couldn’t remember its actual name, or something that physically described it. To prepare this controlled vocabulary in real life I would need to know who the intended audience would be and what they would primarily be using the source of this information for (scholarly journals, Amazon purchases, personal use). For the collection of the items, I would need to know if the items are going to be grouped together or separate. I would also need to know if each of the items wanted to be found together or wanted to have any of the same tags to their vocabulary. Is there a specific term or terms that we want the entire group to be categorized under? Overall, I love the importance and challenge of creating a controlled vocabulary for a set of items. I like the mind navigation and thought process behind it all. It’s like a puzzle to solve and I love the element of trying to think like the users who will use the search engine to find these items. It’s a bit like detective work.