Organizing Your Dessert Menus with a Taxonomy

By admin | November 23, 2020

Thanksgiving in the United States is Thursday, November 26th. When someone says Thanksgiving food, most people think turkey. But not everyone. Cue the Dessert Taxonomy Pies, cakes and cobblers, oh my. Beyond classification, I could see this as a strategy plan for meal preparation or to-do list. Let’s assign a category to a week and…

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The Power of Data Governance

By admin | November 16, 2020

Done correctly, data governance can transform the way an organization manages and capitalizes on its data. However, because it spans a variety of people, processes, policies, and technologies data governance can be a daunting effort. The term data governance can have a variety of definitions. But once you start exploring, every explanation of the term…

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Preserving History

By admin | November 2, 2020

There are millions of historical documents that make up our heritage and that have been locked away behind bureaucratic structures and in largely inaccessible storage formats. Preservation is important, but access is as well. New digital technology is finally providing an easy, efficient and publicly accessible way to store and share this history. When it…

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Categories of Stress and Stress Relief

By admin | October 26, 2020

We are seven months into working from home, self-quarantining and social distancing. This has brought new types of physical and mental stress into our lives. Many people are looking to meditation, yoga, and other alternative methods to reduce their stress and bring calm to their personal lives. In this unprecedented time of anxiety and chaos,…

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Emerging and Emerged Technologies

By admin | October 19, 2020

Emerging technologies is becoming a common term these days. Though the term appears to be self-explanatory, there are many lists being created and shared that are selecting the technologies that should be getting attention by businesses. To keep up with the rapid innovation and disruption happening across all industries and stay ahead of their competition,…

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Ontologies Provide Consistency

By Melody Smith | October 12, 2020

The idea of an ontology is that it represents complex relationships among the objects or concepts themselves. So the intent of an ontology is to provide a way to connect objects. Ontologies on the semantic web are, by nature, decentralized. From the body of ontology mapping approaches, one could draw a conclusion that an effective approach to automate ontology…

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The Value of Taxonomies

By admin | October 5, 2020

What is the true value of a custom taxonomy? Findability, consistency, discoverability, standardization? All of the above? The most common use case for a taxonomy is findability. In short, making it fast, simple, and intuitive for an end user to find what they’re looking for–either through search, browse or any combination thereof. Taxonomy plays a…

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Being Open

By admin | September 28, 2020

The optimal search experience is faceted and could also involve open source. Faceted search is found in intranets and enterprise search applications, as well as other content-heavy sites. However, this takes a budget with enough power to sustain search applications to take you the whole journey. Is open source another worthy option to consider? A…

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