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Why Use A Taxonomy Management Tool?
With content management systems offering taxonomy features, why use a taxonomy managment tool at all? There are many reasons why a coordinating taxonomy management tool is not only valuable, but necessary. The system should not be short-circuited by the limitations of a content management system which, trying to serve an array of purposes, doesn’t quite match all the functions served by the original parts.
Read MoreTaxonomies and Content Governance
July 5, 2010 — In the 1980s, commercial database producers had an editorial policy. I recall reading the Courier Journal / Data Courier description of the editorial policy for the original ABI/INFORM business database. (Disclosure: Access Innovations was an advisor to the Courier Journal’s commercial database operation.) The idea was that subject matter experts and…
Read MoreLaw Firm Technology Vendor Satisfaction Survey
Law.com’s vendor survey suggests areas in which technology vendors should be working to improve.
Read MoreData Alignment: Good Data Means Better Business
Indexing and tagging not only help users find information and bring about clarity, but are good business practices as well.
Read MoreThe Accidental Taxonomist by Heather Hedden Review
Review of Heather Hedden’s recent book, The Accidental Tourist. Little has been published with a solid how-to approach to implementing thesaurus construction standards. This book fills that gap.
Read MoreData Alignment: Good Data Means Better Business
June 7, 2010 – In a client meeting last week, we heard, “I needed to retrieve the Wilson proposal but I had to wade through two screens of results before I could locate the document I wanted.” We took a quick look and saw that the document creator had assigned uncontrolled free text index terms.…
Read MoreTaxoDiary: Welcome to Our Blog
June 1, 2010 – After quite a bit of discussion with friends, colleagues, and staff, Access Innovations has decided to create a Web log. The name is TaxoDiary, and the information will be related to indexing, ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and related subjects. We want to share information that we think provides some insight and possibly…
Read MoreTaxonomy: Search’s Hula-Hoop
I received several thoughtful comments on my Beyond Search Web log from well-known search and content processing experts (not the search engine optimization type or the MBA analyst species). These comments addressed the topic of taxonomies. One senior manager at a leading search and content processing firm referenced David Weinberger’s quite good book, Everything is Miscellaneous. My…
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