Access Insights
Indexing: Chopping Logic
June 4, 2010 – The Nieman Journalism Lab’s “Aggregators, Curators, and Indexers: There’s a Difference and It Matters” makes a great deal of sense. You will want to read the original write-up by C. W.Anderson. For us, the most interesting comment was: Anytime you hear someone talk about Google News, The Huffington Post, Gawker, blogging,…
Read MoreMicrosoft Research Approach to Hierarchical Taxonomy Building
June 3, 2010 – Earlier this year we learned about a novel method for building taxonomies. We located on Microsoft Research’s Web site the complete paper, “Building Taxonomy of Web Search Intents for Name Entity Queries.” Like most technical papers, there is a hefty dose of math, but in this paper the authors have provided…
Read MoreElectronic Newsletters Add Classification System
June 3, 2010 – SmartBrief http://www.smartbrief.com, a publisher of electronic newsletters for various industries, has added the Lexalytics classification system to their repertoire according to “SmartBrief Signs Agreement to Integrate Lexalytics Classification Solution” . The system allows “flexibility in classifying content from various sources” and provides a toolkit that can help “create, edit, and revise…
Read MoreSpindex: 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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