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Digital and Taxonomies
Digital media of all kinds have become an increasingly significant part of our everyday experience. Every day, we consume and interact with photos, audio files, video clips, animations, games, interactive ads, streaming movies, and even experiential marketing, which has gained a digital edge with the rise of virtual reality and augmented reality. An organization’s content…
Read MoreWhat is Left to Emerge?
“Emerging technologies” is a widely pandered term these days. Though largely self-explanatory, this term doesn’t give the full story. The list of new technologies arising in the marketplace is perhaps incomplete due to the compartmental nature of proprietary development. To keep up with the rapid innovation and disruption happening across all industries and stay ahead…
Read MoreAnalytics and Metrics are Driving the Bus
Performance metrics are frequently used for employees in their annual reviews to establish mutual expectations and performance evaluations. But what about organizations? Who sets those expectations? And more importantly, how are the performances measured? A business metric is a quantifiable measure that is used to track and assess the status of a specific business process. Every…
Read MoreThe Emerging Technologies
Emerging technologies is a common term these days. While self-explanatory, this term belies the tech community’s filters of exclusivity applied to new technologies when it comes time to decide which will go and which will become part of today’s business technology. To keep up with the rapid innovation and disruption happening across all industries and…
Read MorePerspective on Data Security
How safe is your personal data? Do you even know all the locations that hold your data? Work, home, social media? Don’t worry, because few people do. I often hear some variation of the claim that “young people today just don’t care about privacy.” This is something that people widely seem to believe. Protecting your personal…
Read MoreCategories of Self-Care
Self-care is a hot topic these days. After 3+ years of working from home, social distancing, remote learning, and doing birthday parties on the front lawn, human beings are tired and stressed. These are perhaps new types of either physical or mental stress coming from external and internal sources. Many people are looking to meditation,…
Read MoreInformation Science Tools
We know what a taxonomy does and is. It provides the structure and classification to organize content for its best findability. It represents a predefined structure organizing anything from a range of subjects of general industries and fields of study to the microcosm of words and terms unique to a small business. They are usually arranged…
Read MoreFindability Through Taxonomies
Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a natural language processing technique that analyzes relationships between a set of documents and the terms they contain. The result? Search engines can identify related terms for keywords by searching billions of pages and using the findings to evaluate the degree to which a single web page reflects truly comprehensive content…
Read MoreDiscovering the Data
At first glance, the terms “findability” and “discoverability” may seem to refer to similar things. However, these concepts are very different, and both are key outcomes that should be considered in any comprehensive knowledge management strategy. Content without access is relatively worthless. Enterprise search is how an organization helps people find the information they need,…
Read MoreUsing Metadata for Findability
Meta tags are snippets of text that describe a page’s content. They won’t appear on the page itself, but only in the page’s code. Think about them as little content labels for helping search engines organize information. Meta tags or metadata has been around almost since the beginning of search engine history. They were valued as…
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