Taxodiary – Taxonomy

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 10 (Taxonomies in SharePoint)

By Melody Smith|April 9th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, search, Taxonomy|1 Comment

I hope this series on search has been helpful to users and professionals alike. Let’s close with a look at taxonomies in SharePoint. Let’s look at this data flow in another way. We have incoming information; going to dump into a repository. We need to add metadata to that repository. We want to add taxonomy terms. The taxonomy terms all need to be controlled or suggested. So, there’s a backend to do that. Once we have the data in that repository it could be exported to a SQL or a relational database, transactional system, for e-commerce. It might be put into a repository so that the full displays can be done. It might be loaded into a search system and you also might have a presentation layer for display.

Webinar Series Continues

By Melody Smith|April 6th, 2012|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Webinar Series Continues

Earley & Associates have been running their Spring Jumpstart Webinar program: Get Dynamic with Digital Assets, for the past month. The four-part program finishes up on April 11, 2012.

New Partnership Aims to Improve Findability

By Melody Smith|April 4th, 2012|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on New Partnership Aims to Improve Findability

Cable One is partnering with Synacor for the launch of its TV Everywhere services and customer Web portal.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 9

By Melody Smith|April 2nd, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 9

As we continue the series on search, we are close to wrapping up with a more in-depth look behind the scenes of database management systems. Let’s take a quick look at behind the scenes. We want to connect the database management system to the thesaurus tool so that we can validate the terms and make sure that they are in good shape and, as people are adding records to the database, if they have any suggestions or candidates, we want to lock those in as well. The thesaurus tool will tell you which terms are actually correct, allow you to add, change, and delete, and otherwise manage the term base. Then the indexing is used to actually suggest indexing terms to records as they are loaded to the database management system. That system can be SharePoint, it could be a content management system, it could be a Documentum or a FileNet, or any other thing you want to use as a repository to manage your data. That is driven by the taxonomy.

New Book Addresses Ontologies

By Melody Smith|March 29th, 2012|Folksonomy, News, ontology, reference, Taxonomy|1 Comment

Woodhead Publishing Ltd's new book "Library Classification Trends in the 21st Century" traces the development in and around library classification as reported in literature published in the first decade of the 21st century.

Explaining Taxonomies

By Melody Smith|March 21st, 2012|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Explaining Taxonomies

Explaining a taxonomy as a "knowledge organization system," our very own Margie Hlava explains how they are used to control the use of terms used in a subject field into a "vocabulary" to facilitate the storing and retrieving of items from a repository.

Apple Acquires Mobile Application Company

By Melody Smith|March 21st, 2012|News, semantic, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Apple Acquires Mobile Application Company

Apple has acquired mobile application company, Chomp. Their feature product is an app for searching the iOS App Store in clever ways. Chomp’s app uses a “proprietary algorithm” that learns the functions and topic of apps. This semantic-like technology helps users search for apps based on their true functionality, not just their names. The app offers app browsing by unique categories that don’t exist within the App Store’s own taxonomy.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 7

By Melody Smith|March 19th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 7

This is the next piece in our series of blog posts on search and how it works. Next let’s look at an inverted file index, let’s pretend that this is the outline of the presentation. I have Define Key Terminology, Thesaurus Tools, Functions, Features, Class, Construction of the Thesaurus etc in the figure below. You can see that the word “Thesaurus” is used three times here. I have a number of other words that you might focus on to see where they are. If I am going to take these and make them into an inverted file, the simple inverted file index is just going to take them and make them into an alphabetic list. So it will sort the high ASCII characters first – the special characters and the numbers – and then it will sort the rest of them alphabetically.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 6

By Melody Smith|March 12th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 6

This is the next piece in our series of blog posts on search and how it works. Last week we ended with natural language processing and we are picking up this week on automatic language processing or ALP.

Smart Search Equals Smart Content

By Melody Smith|March 8th, 2012|News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Smart Search Equals Smart Content

Medical search engine and database tools aren’t all equal. Depending on your needs, a clinician could gain access to dynamic data to diagnose and treat patients must faster than ever before. One of these options is ClinicalKey, which is now in beta testing.