Posts Tagged ‘Findability’
Making Content Findable
A clear taxonomy keeps your content organized and allows your audience to easily find your content through either the navigation structure on your website or through onsite search. Digital taxonomists and metadata or cataloging librarians employ knowledge management and organization based on the same information sciences theories, but the applications and environments in which they…
Read MoreMetadata Management and Governing Data
In very practical ways, metadata has different implications for different roles within information science and like so many topics close to us, it can be hard to sift through the available information to find out what it means to you. Regardless of experience, understanding or enthusiasm, metadata is important to us all. Good metadata management is the…
Read MoreFindability and Classification
The need to classify and categorize corporate information has never been greater. The proliferation of information channels, sources and delivery platforms make managing information a complex business challenge. This interesting information came to us from The Knowledge Management Depot in their article, “Taxonomies, Ontologies, and Content Models Oh My!“ The key to managing information is…
Read MoreMaintaining Findability with Data Deluges
When the amount of new data generated surpasses the limit of institutions to manage it, and makes it difficult for analysts to analyze it and researchers to deduce any useful conclusions from it, this is known as a data deluge. This interesting topic came to us from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) in…
Read MoreKeeping the Data Secure and Still Findable
Data is a critical enterprise asset that underpins operations, drives decision-making, makes personalized end-to-end service delivery possible, unlocks competitive advantage and so much more. Unfortunately, all this data represents a rich prize for cyber criminals looking to steal, hijack or hold data to ransom. This interesting news came to us from Benzinga in their article,…
Read MoreFinding Efficiently
Findability for users (whether internal or external) is important. Google Cloud has released a new fully managed search tool, called Retail Search, which is aimed at retailers who are concerned about product discovery on their digital platforms. This interesting information came to us from CIO in their article, “Google Cloud brings its search smarts to…
Read MoreLooking to Data for Answers
Recent studies revealed about 40% of enterprise data is either inaccurate, incomplete or unavailable, which results in businesses failing to achieve their data-driven goals. Venture Beat brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “4 tips for using analytics and data to drive growth and profits.” How do major organizations use data and analytics to…
Read MoreManaging Data
Modern businesses have vast, diverse data that they want to make use of in as many ways as possible, including for analytics. A data lake can serve as a single repository for multiple data-driven projects. InfoWorld brought this topic to us in their article, “What is a data lake? Massively scalable storage for big data…
Read MoreFinding the Way with Taxonomies
Most organizations today face challenges as they accumulate volumes of data on premises and in the cloud. How do they begin to locate what’s valuable, sensitive or relevant when the time comes, and in an expedited manner? A custom taxonomy might be the answer. Taxonomies provide consistency in terms and categories to enable findability in content. This is true regardless…
Read MoreInside Semantic Search
A lot has changed and improved since the first-generation search technologies. Today’s modernized search platforms make it easier to build infrastructure, integrate with content sources and improve relevancy. InfoWorld brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Why you should modernize search technologies.” Semantic search is a data searching technique in a which a search query aims…
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