Taxonomy
FASB Launches New System
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has launched a new system that provides greater transparency for users of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). The Taxonomy Online Review and Comment System allows taxonomy users to review and provide direct input on the Development Taxonomy being updated and maintained by the FASB XBRL team.
Read MoreUses for a Thesaurus
A thesaurus can be used for several different purposes. It is mainly used for information retrieval, in one way or another. We use it in information retrieval both on the search end and in the tagging of the records.
Read MoreNew Information Technology Department Taxonomy
WAND has released the latest entry in its enterprise taxonomy library, the
new Information Technology Department Taxonomy. This new taxonomy is designed specifically for IT departments and gives a jump-start to any enterprise content project that is organizing IT related documents.
Products that Support SharePoint Integration Continue to Grow
Microsoft has released their new cloud computing Office 365 that allows companies of all sizes to use the power of tools such as SharePoint, Exchange, Lync and Office with the benefits of cloud computing.
Read MoreSharePoint Integration Makes Metadata More Powerful
Idera held a webcast last week on “Understanding SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata.” Andrew Connell, MVP, author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training, demonstrated to attendees how to use the Managed Metadata Service application in SharePoint 2010 to create and utilize taxonomies in various capacities and how metadata can be used within SharePoint sites.
Read MoreFrom Simple to Complex
People talk about different kinds of vocabularies. The differences usually have to do with the structure, or lack thereof. Sometimes, people refer to “flat lists”. These are one-level lists with no hierarchical structure. They can be uncontrolled or controlled lists. An uncontrolled list is a simple, flat structure. The uncontrolled list is your “Saturday list”.
Read MoreTaxonomies Should Not Be Postponed
WorthPoint is a known provider of valuation and associated services for art, antiques and collectibles. WorthPoint Forums provide access to expert options and debates regarding the world of collecting. Together, they are integrated with the company’s price guide, Worthopedia, which contains over 90 million items. With that volume of content, a taxonomy is definitely in order.
Read MoreNew Data Integration Arrangement
Aggregate Knowledge and Resonate Networks announced they will integrate Resonate’s data and services with the patent-pending AK Platform. The result for advertisers is a scalable and privacy-compliant solution that tracks and reports every known user attribute by campaign to reveal which publishers, attributes, segments, and data providers worked best, and which didn’t. This analysis provides critical information to optimize current campaigns as well as future ones. The data-neutral AK Platform can deal with any kind of data, including taxonomies.
Read MoreBreaking Down Automatic Metadata Generation/Extraction
There are two approaches to automatic metadata generation/extraction and within those, many variations. Generally speaking, the statistical approach types are Bayesian, vector, neural nets, automatic clustering, and the like. These methods work off the principle that if in a big set of data two words occur together frequently, then those words are related conceptually.atistical methods depend on the algorithms that the developer has come up with. Some vendors lock down the numerical recipes and provide few or no user controls. These systems usually require “training”. The way that they do this is to take a list of terms, often a thesaurus, taxonomy or authority file and a corpus of text. The system manager processes the inputs with spot checking and often manual intervention by a human subject matter expert. When the system has been trained, test queries are run to verify that the system is performing as desired on fresh content.
Read MoreSemantic Technology Can’t Work Without Solid Taxonomies
Springer Science+Business Media is extending its collaboration with TEMIS to work on semantic enrichment and content linking for the SpringerLink platform.
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