New York Times Shares Its Subject Descriptors

By Melody Smith|July 6th, 2010|indexing, News, ontology|Comments Off

July 6, 2010 – What exactly are subject descriptors? They are subject headings that New York Times Open blog defines as keywords related to article content instead of proper nouns. This release includes 498 of the most commonly-used subject headers, which, like the names, are mapped to DBPedia and/or Freebase.

ResearchBuzz shared this news in their post, “New York Times Publishing More Subject Headings“. The New York Times released 5000 person/place/organization names as subject headings last November and have plans to eventually release all 3,500 of its subject descriptors. You can browse through all the available subject headings and descriptors here. The alphabetical browsing links are in the middle of the page.

A good model for building a strong ontology and thoroughly indexed database for easy access and productive search results.

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About the Author: Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

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New York Times Shares Its Subject Descriptors