Spindex: Your Personal Index
June 2, 2010 – We learned about Spindex at a conference months ago. The story “Microsoft Launches Its Impossible Project: Spindex” provides more information about what is trending within an individual’s “personal index.” As professionals in the indexing field, we found the notion of a personal index and a topic that warrants some consideration. For…
Read MoreCompliance and Indexing
June 2, 2010 – “Backing Up Corporate Data – How Deduplication Helps” references indexing but the focus is on the challenge of deduplication. Indexing can be a help in certain deduplication operations, and it can be a problem. In free form indexing environments, a document may have different index terms assigned. Is this enough to…
Read MoreSEO and LSI May Help Boost Your Web Site in a Results List
June 2, 2010 – SEO is an acronym for search engine optimization. The idea is that indexing, content, and links can boost a Web page in a Google’s search result list. LSI is shorthand for latent semantic indexing. A definition from PCForHire says: LSI uses word associations to help search engines know more accurately what…
Read MoreMarketing Taxonomy Expertise Enthusiastically
June 1, 2010 – We received an email urging us to read the email threat at the Taxonomy Community of Practice. We did some poking around and identified a discussion on Yahoo’s finance “group” discussion here. We worked through the Yahoo thread and figured out that a person is working to deal with a taxonomy…
Read MoreFolksonomy Persists in Folktales
June 1, 2010 – An expert at Knowledge Architecture Professional Services delivered a talk at a recent conference. The title was “Folksonomy Folktales.” In my opinion, the most interesting idea in the talk was the hybrid approach to taxonomy and folksonomy. The idea is that making use of both formal and informal methods yields good…
Read MoreTaxoDiary: Welcome to Our Blog
June 1, 2010 – After quite a bit of discussion with friends, colleagues, and staff, Access Innovations has decided to create a Web log. The name is TaxoDiary, and the information will be related to indexing, ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and related subjects. We want to share information that we think provides some insight and possibly…
Read MoreDow Jones and Automatic Taxonomy Generation
September 30, 2008 – An eager beaver reader (I only have two or three) sent me a link to “Taxonomies for Human Vs Auto-Indexing.” The author of the Synaptica Central write-up is Wendy Lim. She is summarizing or reproducing information attributed to Heather Hedden. From a bibliographic angle, I think a tad more work could…
Read MoreLibrary of Congress Word List May 30, 2009
Short honk: Quite a few taxonomy discussions this week. I need to demo an authority list. I turned to the Library of Congress. If you want a copy of the authority list in XML, navigate here and click go. Stephen Arnold, May 30, 2009
Read MoreTaxonomy: Search’s Hula-Hoop
I received several thoughtful comments on my Beyond Search Web log from well-known search and content processing experts (not the search engine optimization type or the MBA analyst species). These comments addressed the topic of taxonomies. One senior manager at a leading search and content processing firm referenced David Weinberger’s quite good book, Everything is Miscellaneous. My…
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