Solutions for SharePoint
SharePoint Solutions offers a solution for an often requested and needed connection between its Business Connectivity Services and the SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata feature.
Theory of Knowledge: Philosophic Beginnings
At their core, taxonomies and other classification systems are ways of organizing and managing knowledge. To understand the history of classification systems, it behooves us to explore the history of thinking about knowledge. So what is knowledge? The Greek philosopher Plato defined it as “justified true belief”. However, the twentieth-century writer Bertrand Russell commented that “at first sight it might be thought that knowledge might be defined as belief which is in agreement with the facts. The trouble is that no one knows what a belief is, no one knows what a fact is, and no one knows what sort of agreement between them would make a belief true.”
Integration with SharePoint
Concept Searching will hold a webinar this week on How to Integrate Taxonomy and Term Store Management. Scheduled on Wednesday April 10th, at 11:30-11:45 AM EDT, this free webinar is part of the Concept Searching 2013 How To Webinar Series.
Commonality Fosters Consistency
A business glossary is a software application used to communicate and govern the organization’s business concepts and terminology, along with the associated definitions and relationships between those terms. A core objective of a business glossary is to minimize the confusion of business terminology and communications.
Think Tanks, Cold Fish & Flea Markets
Americans love idioms, probably more than any other country. We shoot the breeze, bend ears, pull legs, and put our feet in our mouths. These bizarre phrases are a staple of our language and conversation style. A collection of these idioms have been published in The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms and the new volume contains hundreds of new entries.
Political Taxonomy
Regardless of your political affilitation, if you have any at all, this entertaining and interesting take on another taxonomy piqued my interest, and hopefully will do the same for you.
A Quick Look Behind the Scenes
The workings of a taxonomy or thesaurus in a database or website can seem mysterious. Let’s take a look behind the scenes. irst of all, we need the taxonomy or thesaurus in digital form, either as a separate file or as it exists in a specialized software application. The screenshot below is from the editorial user interface of a thesaurus software application.
Time Warp
I have a confession to make. For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated with time travel. Many books I read as a teenager were related in some way or another with the subject and television shows like Land of the Lost as a child sucked me into the topic and I have never wanted to leave.
Findability Is Easier With Taxonomies
KnowledgeSpeak brought this news to our attention in their article, “ASTM International selects Scope eKnowledge Center to provide enhanced smart content and MARC cataloging services.” Scope is known for developing facets with a taxonomic structure to enable robust cross-domain search. This project will broaden these 'smart content' services to include a Portuguese language version of the taxonomy, facets, and keywords to enhance the discoverability of its content by its Brazilian end users.
Where Do Terms Go?
Over the past several weeks, we have looked at various topics involving taxonomies and thesauri. And we have seen that controlled vocabularies are an important part of search and browsing. But how are taxonomies put to use? What about the terms? Where do they go? Exactly how are they put to use in search? What are the different ways that a taxonomy can be used in search?