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Good Housekeeping Enhances Findability

By Melody Smith | November 4, 2014

Many industries, including law firms, still struggle to incorporate the basics of records management systems. Though some look on such systems as an archaic form of organization, digitization and technology have made it today’s answer to findability. Of course this only applies when it is done properly.

But No Rudolph

By Melody Smith | October 27, 2014

An interesting find in the world of taxonomies today, Platter-saurus – a thesaurus of 20th century musical styles, artists, and titles. This website is also available in a printed book format (limited quantities available) and CD-ROM. The advantage of the book and CD-ROM is that you can explore Musical Categories and find artists and song titles you may not have heard of before or perhaps have forgotten.

A Different Approach for Some

By Melody Smith | October 24, 2014

Perspective is key as we hear time and time again. How one person or group of people look at a situation is likely very different from those on the other side of the coin. This is true with taxonomies as well. Who builds them and the perspective they bring to the project is key to its success or failure. The Financial Times brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Where new ideas take root.”

Classifying Men?

By Melody Smith | October 22, 2014 |

I am still surprised at the variety of taxonomies I found and I typically find them in the oddest places. This one came from ECNS in their article, “Male outcast taxonomy.” Though not a true taxonomy, its classification efforts are as unique as the topic.

Adding to the Data

By Melody Smith | October 22, 2014

The European Training Thesaurus (ETT) is Cedefop’s controlled vocabulary used to index the VET-Bib (the Reference Library of Vocational Education and Training in Europe) bibliographic database.

Active Searching for Taxonomy Resources

By Melody Smith | October 20, 2014

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” So muses American businessman Harvey MacKay.

We have no choice in the matter. Time cannot be “saved” …only spent. Our responsibility is to determine how we wish to best allocate it. Otherwise, time will not only be spent but also wasted. How valuable, then, are those skills and tools that help us distribute our time in ways that we consider most useful and productive!

Comprehensive Search Features in New Release

By Melody Smith | October 16, 2014

TopQuadrant has released Version 4.5 of TopBraid Suite, which is designed to simplify the development and management of standards-based, model-driven solutions for enterprise taxonomy and ontology management.

Semantic Technology Speeds up Business Analytics

By Melody Smith | October 15, 2014

IBM recently introduced Watson Analytics, a natural language-based cognitive service that can provide immediate and simple access to powerful predictive and visual analytic tools for businesses.

Making Search Comprehensive

By Melody Smith | September 30, 2014

fluid Operations has released version 5.5 of Information Workbench and eCloudManager.

It Is For the Birds

By Melody Smith | September 29, 2014

We talk a lot about taxonomy in the realm of indexing organizational information against a solid and strong taxonomy built within standards so that content is found easily. It is easy sometimes to forget that taxonomy originated with science. Classification of animals, plants, and other organisms into appropriate categories for easy reference. eBird is a traditional genus-species kind of taxonomy except for the part about being online and searchable.