Taxodiary – Taxonomy

Flexibility for the Users Can Also Save Money

By Melody Smith|December 21st, 2010|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Flexibility for the Users Can Also Save Money

EcoSys released Version 5 of its enterprise planning and cost controls software. This version further extends the software’s flexibility and ease-of-use.

Do our customers make buying decisions or purchasing decisions?

By Melody Smith|December 20th, 2010|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Do our customers make buying decisions or purchasing decisions?

One of the problems of information management, as represented by both Master Data Management and Metadata Registry efforts, is a confusion of terms. Have we always referred to "purchasing decisions" or has there been a shift in terms with the merger or the change in management or simply a cultural evolution so that now we're talking about "buying decisions".

OnBase 10.0 Content Management Released

By Melody Smith|December 17th, 2010|Autoindexing, News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on OnBase 10.0 Content Management Released

Hyland Software has released OnBase 10.0, offering enterprise content management capabilities in case-management areas such as healthcare patient records and insurance claims.

IDC Launches Global Tracker

By Melody Smith|December 16th, 2010|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on IDC Launches Global Tracker

International Data Corporation (IDC) has launched a global tracker covering the database and data integration software market on a semiannual basis. Covering six major regions and 13 of the largest country markets, the Worldwide Semiannual Database and Data Integration Software Tracker provides biannual market size, vendor share, and forecast data for the four market segments that comprise this market in IDC's software taxonomy.

MetaVis Wants To Keep Your Content Searchable

By Melody Smith|December 15th, 2010|indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on MetaVis Wants To Keep Your Content Searchable

MetaVis Technologies, Inc., announced that its SharePoint migration, metadata management and classification products support Microsoft Office 365 migration. With the MetaVis Suite, users will be able to design a SharePoint information architecture for Office 356 that leverages metadata management and taxonomy structures to keep content organized and searchable.

How Findable is Your Information?

By Melody Smith|December 15th, 2010|indexing, metadata, News, ontology, semantic, Taxonomy|Comments Off on How Findable is Your Information?

The time which we spend looking for information is time taken away from other important tasks. Collecting information so that it is “findable” is beyond technology, beyond search; it is an understanding of how technology collects and indexes content to produce the right results.

Synthesys v3.0 Released

By Melody Smith|December 13th, 2010|News, ontology, Taxonomy|2 Comments

Digital Reasoning Systems Inc. released their flagship solution for cloud-scale analytics in government and commercial markets - Synthesys v3.0.

Master Data Management

By Melody Smith|December 13th, 2010|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Master Data Management

There's a lot of discussion lately about Master Data Management; what it is and isn't. Why is this of interest to the taxonomy practitioner? To a large extent a controlled vocabulary is trying to accomplish the same thing at the conceptual level as MDM is at the data level. MDM removes ambiguity at the data level through a variety of means as described in the item referenced in the above link. The how and why of MDM can provide valuable insight into the data workings of an organization. This can lead to a much more powerful enterprise taxonomy - one that can truly span the vast store of enterprise content. An MDM initiative is an ideal place to insert a taxonomic strategy and implementation. Making the business case for a taxonomy initiative, getting it funded, approved, and implemented will be easier if you can align yourself with an MDM initiative. An MDM deployment to succeed must analyze and potentially process all of an organizations data stores. Resolving data and structural ambiguities is also a great time to resolve conceptual ambiguities.

WikiLeaks: Good Use of Taxonomy?

By Melody Smith|December 10th, 2010|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on WikiLeaks: Good Use of Taxonomy?

You can’t turn on a television or radio without hearing about WikiLeaks. I personally haven’t looked at the site or read any reports republished by various news outlets. However, it has occurred to me that with the vast amount of information supposedly on this site, a strong taxonomy has to be place to access and retrieve the data.

EBSCO Chosen by US Government Printing Office

By Melody Smith|December 9th, 2010|indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on EBSCO Chosen by US Government Printing Office

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is making its metadata searchable through EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). This leap into the metatagging realm will enable EDS subscribers to search for federal records from the GPO's Catalog of U.S. Government Publications. This includes the Congressional Serial Set Catalog, GPO Access Publications, and Internet Publications.