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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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