File Analytics and Data Webinar

Data is data, but it certainly can change your business strategy, depending on your line of business. This interesting information came to us from the Oil & Gas Journal in their article, “How File Analytics can lead to more Profitable Acquisitions and Divestiture of well assets.” Acquisitions and divestitures provide great opportunities for business growth…

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The Oscars of Taxonomy

Taxonomy Boot Camp London has announced the first ever Taxonomy Boot Camp London awards. This new addition is designed to highlight the very best practitioners and organizations working with taxonomies today. Knowledge Speak brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “Taxonomy Boot Camp London invites nominations for the inaugural Taxonomy Boot Camp London…

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Taxonomies in Action

MDR, a division of Dun & Bradstreet, has put together a database of 140,000 District Influencers. This enhances its school district staff taxonomy to reflect the relationship between top level decision makers and the support staff that often have an influential role in advising and informing senior staff on key decisions. This interesting information came to us…

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Enterprise Resource Planning Game is Changing

Organizations must have corporate taxonomies in place to manage increasingly intelligent enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and broader data insights. This interesting topic came to us from Financial Executives in their article, “Managing in an Unlimited Visibility World: A Q&A With SAP’s Thack Brown.” ERP is essential to running all aspects of a business, including…

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Taxonomy Editor Opportunity

To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, semantic technology, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.…

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Social Nomenclature in Music Monikers

“That would be a great band name” is almost as common of a response as “That’s what she said…” in our current culture. But seriously, we have all paused at one time or another to wondered where musical groups get the inspiration for their band names. One aspect of the music world that has always…

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Taxonomies Used to Read Data

You would have to be living under a rock to have not heard about the Russian social media content farms and hacking conversations taking place everywhere in the media and news. Whatever your take on the issue might be, I found it interesting that they used a taxonomy to disseminate the data. This interesting news…

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Digital Fingerprints

Stylometry is the statistical analysis of linguistic style. Writing can be a unique, personal process. The vocabulary selected, the syntax, and grammatical decisions leave behind a signature. The same is true in digital data. Information Management Today brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints.” Automated tools can now accurately identify…

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The Next Generation of Search

Despite the incredible progress in the underlying search algorithms and approaches to determining relevant results, the way searches have been conducted and consumed by searchers has remained largely unchanged — until now. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is on a trajectory to quickly replace more traditional means of search. Today’s users ask questions,…

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Taxonomies in Information Science

Taxonomists are often asked about the work they do. For those outside the world of information science and management, it can be hard to get their head around classification and the science of taxonomy. To put it at its simplest — taxonomy is a knowledge organization system, usually for a specific subject area. This interesting…

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