Taxonomy
Proof of the Need for Standards
Manually applying metadata to SharePoint deployments can be time-consuming and can also create inefficiencies. Tech Target brought this interesting information to us in their article, “SharePoint Managed Metadata Service creates efficiencies.” The ability to search for and easily retrieve content is a primary function of SharePoint. However, poor metadata and taxonomy practices can defeat those efforts.…
Read MoreData Harmony Users Group in the Rear View Mirror
The 12th annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) has come and gone. Twenty-five attendees joined the Access Innovations staff last week to hear case studies presented by users and presentations by Access Innovations and Data Harmony staff. The agenda was well planned with diverse approaches to managing data and being responsive to the unique needs…
Read MoreTurning the Bad Into Good
Cindy Acton from Cargill shared with the attendees of Data Harmony Users Group (#DHUG2016) how her organization uses Data Harmony to help their research and development team index and access technical reports. Cargill’s thesaurus contains over 9,000 terms and about 500 top level terms into a streamlined tool used by their researchers to find the…
Read MoreTaxonomies That Work
Ian Matzen from America’s Test Kitchen – home of the well known television show and foodie paradise – spoke to the Data Harmony Users Group (#DHUG2016) about their experience working with Access Innovations on consultation and refinement of their thesaurus. America’s Test Kitchen is a real 2,500 square foot test kitchen located just outside of Boston that…
Read MoreCall for Papers – Taxonomy Boot Camp
Taxonomy Boot Camp 2016 will focus on taxonomy methodologies inspired by a range of disciplines, including cognitive science, data management, and user experience design. Learn more about diverse practical approaches that will improve your taxonomy development and implementation skills. This year’s theme is “Beyond Awareness: Honing the Craft.” This year’s boot camp will be November…
Read MoredataCloud, LLC and Access Innovations, Inc. Launch Semantics-Based Big Data Solution
dataCloud, LLC and Access Innovations, Inc. have teamed up to create Topic Seeker™, a semantics-based solution for big data. Topic Seeker analyzes text-based content and organizes it by topic, allowing publishers and other organizations to see changing trends in their respective fields, develop conference tracks based on current topic relevance, and many other applications. “Analytics…
Read MoreDigging Deep into Hierarchy
Understanding polyhierarchy within taxonomies can be a challenge, but not an insurmountable one. This interesting information came from Heather Hedden’s blog, The Accidental Taxonomist, in the post titled, “Polyhierarchy in the SharePoint Term Store.” Polyhierarchy means a taxonomy term has more than one broader term or parent term. In a traditional hierarchical taxonomy structure, a term…
Read MoreName of the Game
For the average reader, details like hyphens may seem irrelevant to the content and overall message. But those in the taxonomy field understand all too well how important details can be in classifying data and retrieving it easily. Making content findable is the name of the game. This interesting information came from jboyd.net the post, “Aves—A…
Read MoreGroundhog Day: Names and Recursions
I’m sure you’re all just like me and waiting anxiously to hear the results from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, whence this very day we will find out from Punxsy Phil whether spring will come early this year or we have to wait six more weeks (pro tip: In the Northern Hemisphere, it’s always going to fall on…
Read MoreTaxonomy and Metadata Specialist Needed
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, 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…
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