Media World Embraces Semantics

Semantics is playing an increasingly important role in the development of knowledge management tools across a variety of industries, but some of the most interesting developments are coming from the media world.

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It’s Good to Have Friends

The Taxonomy Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) wants you to recruit your friends for membership. This is one of those times that you benefit from having so many friends because the division member with the most recruits wins prizes!

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Taxonomies in Book Store Organizations

There are many approaches to the building of a thesaurus and taxonomy. No absolutely right or absolutely wrong methods exist but there are some that are not as efficient as others. Some which lead to bias in the resulting work. Some which will not work with the data the client actually wants to surface on a website or data mine or tag. There are some very expensive approaches and some very practical approaches to doing the work.

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From Ink to Digital

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) marked a milestone recently when it officially reached 150 years of producing and delivering government documents for all three branches of the Federal Government and the public.

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How Do You Manage Your Knowledge?

We’ve all heard the saying “knowledge is power.” This tends to exist within a silo-centric environment. However, great leaders realize that controlling knowledge diminishes value, while releasing knowledge creates value.

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Freeing The Data – Trends for the Future

Data is not a singular thing or process. Technology continues to evolve and branch out with highly scalable web search engines, increasingly capable natural language processing technologies, and artificial intelligence. Watson. Need we say more?

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