The Importance of Humans

December 13, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on The Importance of Humans

Automation is one of the topics a Beyond Search writer has taken issue with recently. The involvement of humans with indexing and taxonomies seems to be a “for or against” issue. Few stand in the arena of neutrality.

This interesting information was found on the Arnold IT blog, Beyond Search, in their post titled, “Taxonomy: More Marketing Craziness in Play?” Listing companies like TEMIS, Google, and Yandex as those not interested in human involvement, the reasons for this avoidance ranges from cost to software performance. The writer did recognize the importance that Access Innovations puts on the human factor for developing lists, guidelines and serving as subject matter experts. He is correct, subject matter experts can be used to evaluate the efficacy and completeness of your taxonomy. This valuable contribution cannot be replaced by mere machine.

Melody K. Smith       

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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.