Taxonomy + Social Media = Findability

Social media seems to be factored into every area of technology these days. Taxonomy is no different. Having a defined taxonomy helps promote collaboration and connections by allowing people to quickly match content with an established set of defined keywords and terms.

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Webinar Series: Taxonomies for Publishing

Continuing with the SLA Taxonomy Division’s webinar series, the next webinar is titled “Taxonomies for Publishing: Enhancing the User Experience” and will be held Wednesday, December 14th at 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST).

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What is SharePoint Lacking?

Microsoft has long been the provider of all things uniform and default in the technology world. Mac users have forever been screaming foul with few people listening to their frustrations. When it comes to content management systems, is SharePoint still the best practice model other systems should compare themselves to?

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Webinars Featuring XBRL Experts

PR Newswire brought this information to our attention in their article, “XBRL Challenge Webinar Series to Feature XBRL Data Management (12/8/11) and Investor Analysis (12/16/11).”

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ZooKeys Celebrates Growth

ZooKeys celebrates their 150th issue by reporting a 120% growth by year end. This open access journal has the benefit of easy distribution of information, which makes the data more relevant and popular.

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Semantic Integration – Part I of VI

To discuss the semantic integration or the leveraging of a taxonomy in search, web sites mashups and other places, we should first review what they are. Let’s look at the definitions and then the integration of a taxonomy as a building block for the larger information architecture for an organization. We need to think of taxonomies in that bigger case when we are talking about where we apply them. Once those are out of the way I will review some use-cases and show what makes them work.

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Myths About Taxonomies and SharePoint – Myth #5

We started this week discussing the blog post, or repost by Jeff Carr, on the Early Site regarding myths about taxonomies and SharePoint. You can see my original argument here. Today, let’s talk about the final Myth, #5 – Taxonomies managed in the in the term store can be used everywhere in the SharePoint application.

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