Choosing Non-Preferred (and Preferred) Terms for a Thesaurus

By |September 7th, 2015|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy, Term lists|Comments Off on Choosing Non-Preferred (and Preferred) Terms for a Thesaurus

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Synonyms and other non-preferred terms are largely what make a taxonomy (or other controlled vocabulary) a […]

Choosing Broader and Narrower Terms

By |August 31st, 2015|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Choosing Broader and Narrower Terms

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As most readers of this blog know, taxonomies are controlled vocabularies in which the terms are arranged […]

Ontologist Needed

By |August 26th, 2015|News, ontology, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Ontologist 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 […]

The Value Added by Folksonomies

By |August 11th, 2015|Folksonomy, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Value Added by Folksonomies

As content is organized, the standard approaches include hierarchical or flat. One or both utilize tags to put labels on the content, which makes […]

Classifying Exoplanets: Where does Earth 2.0 fall?

By |August 10th, 2015|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Classifying Exoplanets: Where does Earth 2.0 fall?

On the 9th of January, 1992, astronomers around the world rejoiced. For the first time ever, they had definitive proof of a planet orbiting […]

Intern Opportunities

By |July 31st, 2015|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Intern Opportunities

As we strive to be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are excited to share career […]