Data Alignment: Good Data Means Better Business

By admin | June 7, 2010

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.…

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TaxoDiary: Welcome to Our Blog

By admin | June 1, 2010

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…

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Taxonomy: Search’s Hula-Hoop

By admin | May 17, 2010

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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