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…

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The Demand for Taxonomists and Ontologists

Are taxonomists and ontologists as rare as unicorns? Before addressing that question, let’s talk about the difference between taxonomy and ontology first. It can be a complex matter. A taxonomy is a knowledge organization system, a set of words that have been organized to control the use of terms used in a subject field into a…

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Findability and Taxonomies

Large amounts of data are generated in chemistry labs, both digitally and non-digitally. They are often reported in ways non-accessible to both humans and machines. Nature brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Making the collective knowledge of chemistry open and machine actionable.” The authors of this particular article argue that a modular…

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Navigating the Data 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? Content without access is relatively worthless. Enterprise search is how an organization helps people seek the information they…

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Managing Sustainable Taxonomies

Sustainability or green taxonomies developed by governments, international bodies and non-governmental organizations can help improve the consistency in identifying what, exactly, makes an investment sustainable. This interesting information came to us from Eye on ESG in their article, “Leveraging Taxonomies: How Asset Managers Are Using New Sustainability Classification Systems – Part I.” Investors have increasingly…

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Comprehensive Search Needs Solid Foundation

Enterprise search can retrieve data, both structured and unstructured, within a company. It is beneficial because it enables users to easily access organized information. An organization’s data architecture should be able to offer a method to share and reuse existing data. It should also suppress data duplication for efficient data management and high data quality. This…

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Access Innovations Launches Data Harmony Hub for Automated Content Classification and Semantic Metadata Enrichment

Today Access Innovations, Inc. announced the launch of Data Harmony Hub™, a cloud-based platform that provides fully automated content tagging using expertly curated taxonomies. Users can easily and quickly select from a variety of existing taxonomies that are continuously maintained and updated. Data Harmony Hub is a managed service allowing organizations that need their content…

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Improving Search in Academic Publishing

Publishing in the academic world is in the middle of the same digital transformation as so many other industries – just maybe not as far along. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Transforming Scholarly Publishing With Blockchain Technologies and AI: An Interview with Darrell Gunter.” Artificial intelligence (AI)…

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