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Spindex: Your Personal Index
June 2, 2010 – We learned about Spindex at a conference months ago. The story “Microsoft Launches Its Impossible Project: Spindex” provides more information about what is trending within an individual’s “personal index.” As professionals in the indexing field, we found the notion of a personal index and a topic that warrants some consideration. For…
Read MoreMarketing Taxonomy Expertise Enthusiastically
June 1, 2010 – We received an email urging us to read the email threat at the Taxonomy Community of Practice. We did some poking around and identified a discussion on Yahoo’s finance “group” discussion here. We worked through the Yahoo thread and figured out that a person is working to deal with a taxonomy…
Read MoreDow Jones and Automatic Taxonomy Generation
September 30, 2008 – An eager beaver reader (I only have two or three) sent me a link to “Taxonomies for Human Vs Auto-Indexing.” The author of the Synaptica Central write-up is Wendy Lim. She is summarizing or reproducing information attributed to Heather Hedden. From a bibliographic angle, I think a tad more work could…
Read MoreLibrary of Congress Word List May 30, 2009
Short honk: Quite a few taxonomy discussions this week. I need to demo an authority list. I turned to the Library of Congress. If you want a copy of the authority list in XML, navigate here and click go. Stephen Arnold, May 30, 2009
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