Posts Tagged ‘Taxonomies’
Understanding Metadata
Metadata describes and explains data. It is often referred to in relation to photos, because modern photos’ data format includes device, location, and timestamp data for your camera. Those three things are essentially called metadata. It has been a widely used term for decades, but how much do you know about metadata? This interesting topic…
Read MoreTaxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies
Understanding taxonomies and how they are used can be challenging, depending on the context and audience. The Accidental Taxonomist brought this interesting topic to us in their article, “Taxonomy Definition.” Taxonomy is the science of classification – a basic means of understanding the world around us. Creating information order and structure is what a taxonomy is all about. Classifying documents and…
Read MoreRegulating Data
Data integrity is a broad discipline that informs how data is collected, stored, accessed, and used. The idea of integrity is a central element of many regulatory compliance frameworks, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It is the assurance that digital information is uncorrupted and can only be accessed or modified by those authorized to…
Read MoreChanging Culture with Taxonomies
When it comes to employees, organizations need to remember the various levels of learning of individuals in the workforce and offer reskilling to their employees in effort to keep up with changing technology and culture. Taxonomies can help. This interesting topic came to us from ATD Education in their article, “Putting Taxonomies to Work: Skills…
Read MoreInformation Science Tools
We know what a taxonomy does and is. It provides the structure and classification to organize content for its best findability. It represents a predefined structure organizing anything from a range of subjects of general industries and fields of study to the microcosm of words and terms unique to a small business. They are usually arranged…
Read MoreData Integrity with Taxonomies
How do you both measure and offer trust to satisfy the interests of business value creation and data governance leaders? This interesting topic came to us from Tech Wire in their article, “Trusted Analytics in the Cloud Starts with Data Discovery and Privacy.” Maintaining customer trust that data will be handled responsibly in new cloud-hosted…
Read MoreFindability Through Taxonomies
Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a natural language processing technique that analyzes relationships between a set of documents and the terms they contain. The result? Search engines can identify related terms for keywords by searching billions of pages and using the findings to evaluate the degree to which a single web page reflects truly comprehensive content…
Read MoreRemote Taxonomist Opportunity
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, semantic technology, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.…
Read MoreThe Library’s Role
A public library is for the whole community. Where assets of a public library are available for everyone and made available by governments, a private library is owned by a person or institution to serve that particular person or institution. This interesting topic came to us from The Scholarly Kitchen in their article, “Trust and…
Read MoreDiscovering the Data
At first glance, the terms “findability” and “discoverability” may seem to refer to similar things. However, these concepts are very different, and both are key outcomes that should be considered in any comprehensive knowledge management strategy. Content without access is relatively worthless. Enterprise search is how an organization helps people find the information they need,…
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