New SharePoint Blog Launched
A news service that covers news and information about SharePoint content processing and semantic technology for Microsoft SharePoint has been launched.
Clarity in Chaos
Information architecture is on the forefront lately, whether we realize it or not. The history-making revolts against middle eastern governments has spurred massive amounts of data, and confusion.
Semantic Enrichment for Publishers: Beyond Search and Browse
Using taxonomies and semantic tagging of articles to enable subject browsing and to improve Search are two of the most popular reasons why publishers invest in semantic technology, but the potential benefits are not limited to these two applications.
SLA Conference Early Bird Deadline is Today
If you haven’t registered for the opportunity to connect with thousands of fellow information professionals, be inspired by their ideas and empowered by the history of the city – today is the last day to do so and qualify for the early bird discount.
Online Reputation Monitoring Tool Released
SAS has a new tool that allows companies to monitor social network conversations related to their brand and more actively manage their online reputation. This “fly on the wall” Conversation Centre tool is scheduled to be released in May and will be an addition to their Social Network Analysis (SNA) software.
A Move In Hopes of a Better Taxonomy
The Mississippi Department of Transportation has replaced its legacy enterprise content management (ECM) system with a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 solution.
Taxonomy Standardization is Going On Everywhere
The entire idea of using a controlled vocabulary, a.k.a. thesaurus, a.k.a. ontology, a.k.a. taxonomy, a.k.a. authority file, a.k.a. a pick list, a.k.a. attribute table --is to standardize the nomenclature an organization uses to tag, keyword, add descriptors, controlled vocabulary, subject heading, content tags, semantic indexing, etc., to their content so it can be found, searched, retrieved,… well, you get the idea.
New Partnership Brings Content Management and Social Software Together
Alfresco has joined forces with Jive Software to bring content management into social software’s neighborhood.
Indexing with Related Terms
A Taxonomy is an organization system. It is a controlled vocabulary, containing a parent-child or hierarchical relationship, the specificity happens at the lower levels, at the branches, at the leaflets - or at the end of the list. They are very common on websites. They are also commonly supported as pick lists -- a drop down menu of ten or twelve items. Sometimes they are browsable directories. There are many different ways to put them in play. There are not many standards as yet for taxonomies but there are many standards for thesauri.