Terminology of Days Gone By
A peek into the past is what Words in Time and Place provides its readers. Exploring the language and terminology of days gone by and using the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary as the source.
Taxonomists and Social Media
The increase in social media content offers everyone new challenges and opportunities. That is no different for taxonomists. Now they can define our own terms and hashtags as a basis for findability. This is the epitome of content tagging.
Making Search Comprehensive
fluid Operations has released version 5.5 of Information Workbench and eCloudManager.
It Is For the Birds
We talk a lot about taxonomy in the realm of indexing organizational information against a solid and strong taxonomy built within standards so that content is found easily. It is easy sometimes to forget that taxonomy originated with science. Classification of animals, plants, and other organisms into appropriate categories for easy reference. eBird is a traditional genus-species kind of taxonomy except for the part about being online and searchable.
Pack ’em Up
Are you ready for boot camp? Have all your tools and gear packed and ready to learn? The Taxonomy Boot Camp is scheduled for November 4-5, 2014 in Washington D.C. as a precursor to the Enterprise Search & Discovery 2014 that we brought to you earlier this week.
Taxonomists Needed in the Field
Let it be said that I have no problem leaving a spider of any type un-named. I have no problem leaving them anywhere I am not going to be. But this interesting story caught my attention. The lack of taxonomists in the trade is starting to have visible effects.
Focus on Findability
At the Enterprise Search & Discovery 2014 conference on November 5-7, you will have the opportunity to learn how your peers and colleagues have wrestled with and solved their technological and business challenges when it comes to search and discovery.
Word Geeks Unite
I like games, all types but especially word games. My love of Scrabble was developed early on as my mother and I would play for hours on end. My siblings had no interest so it was quality mom and me time that we still take advantage of when time and situations allow. That doesn't happen as often as I'd like, but I do appreciate her passing on a passion for words, books and vocabulary to me.