Taxonomy
Taxonomies Are Everywhere
here are taxonomies everywhere. Walk into Home Depot or your nearest grocery store and look up. The aisle markers tell you where to find what you are looking for — in broad terms and hopefully, related terms.
Read MoreDon’t Lower Your Standards
Pingar recently introduced its beta Taxonomy Generator Service, which will enable enterprises to generate instant taxonomies from an analysis of the content on large internal document sets.
Read MoreThe Taxonomy of Love
Because it is the famously sweet Hallmark holiday and I am feeling a bit silly, I went on search for a Taxonomy of Love. What better day than Valentine’s Day than to dissect and tear apart what others see as mystical and ethereal?
Read MoreStandards are Needed
MedTouch has launched two strategic websites: washington.providence.org and montana.providence.org. Both websites are powered by the MedTouch Healthcare Accelerator Package for Sitecore.
Read MoreSeeking Comprehensive Results
Daminion Software has released its digital asset management (DAM) system, appropriately named Daminion Server. This program is targeted to home users who want to create a centralized photo and video archive that could be accessible from all computers in a local network.
Read MoreGood Indexing Requires Solid Taxonomies
The Document Scanning is a scanning and indexing services provider that works to create efficient indexes for digital scanned images of documents, books, records, etc.
Read MoreJokes, Unstructured
Humor me while I share a funny (pun totally intended) with you. I stumbled across A Taxonomy of Cognitive Jokes and the more I read the funnier it became. Maybe I’ve been writing about taxonomies for too long, or maybe I just need more sleep (probably the latter), but this cracked me up. Cognitive jokes…
Read MoreThe Importance of Taxonomies
The demand for knowledge management has broadened the use of taxonomies, as well as the opportunities for taxonomists to apply their skills.
Read MoreA Spider Named After Indiana Jones
A jellyfish named Frank Zappa? An ape named John Cleese? A horsefly named Beyonce? Interestingly enough, it has become commonplace for scientists to name new species after celebrities. This practice in taxonomy is fun and surprisingly, the scientists do not need to seek permission from the namesakes.
Read MoreWhat To Do With All The Data?
Metadata is created every moment of every day. Every phone call, every search query, every photo we take creates metadata. It is most likely not something we think of when we create it and certainly we don’t think of how and where it is stored. Sure, we have files on thumb drives and data cards, but that is just a drop in the bucket metadata-wise.
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