Halloween Taxonomy of Horrors
One of the biggest questions floating around every year in October is this: “What movies will you watch this month?”—or some derivative of that. […]
Slang or Vintage?
I am fascinated by words. Their meaning, their history, their multiple uses – all of this and more draws me to dig deeper in […]
New Book Addresses Ontologies
Woodhead Publishing Ltd's new book "Library Classification Trends in the 21st Century" traces the development in and around library classification as reported in literature published in the first decade of the 21st century.
Flickr as a Folksonomy
Remember when you took film to be developed and then shared your packets of memories with friends? It seems so nostalgic, but this routine was occurring only a few years ago. Then came the age of digital photos which led to online photo sites, of which Flickr was born.
Not True!
The Autonomy folks must be getting worried about the progress of taxonomy applications and the precision and recall that such systems provide. Autonomy and Google live on relevance rankings as the return to the user. Relevance to me is a confidence game. It is the best guess of the system as to whether the results returned will actually match the user's request. If you have a big enough data set returned, certainly something in there will be useful. But the sheer amount of items the user has to review (or amount of noise they have to look at) is very annoying. So they rank the returns by relevance based on a number of statistical factors so the most likely items based on co-occurrence with terms matches and near matches will appear at the top of the list - that is, they will be relevance ranked.
Heather Hedden, Taxonomist – Profiled
Heather Hedden, author of The Accidental Taxonomist, discusses her career highlights.
Government 2.0 Gives a Laugh
Humor in indexing with a cartoon caption contest.