Posts Tagged ‘Taxonomies’
Emerging Tech and Search
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…
Read MoreClassifying Your Holiday Meal
The classification of desserts for holidays or otherwise is a perfect opportunity for information science and food to collaborate. I am always fascinated by unusual and interesting taxonomies. However, it is important to remember that, as entertaining and fun as this is, there is value in classification regardless of the topic. Content managers and information developers will have…
Read MoreTaxonomies are Part of Education
Learning can be ethereal and abstract. When it comes to employees, organizations need to remember the variations of learning possessed by their workforce and reskill its employees in a way to keep up with the changing technology and culture. Surprisingly enough, taxonomies can help. This interesting topic came to us from ATD Education in their…
Read MoreEnvironmental 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…
Read MoreBringing Order to Chaos
Taxonomies can be used in different applications and for different purposes, but at their most basic, they organize and classify. This interesting information came to us from HRM Asia in their article, “Leveraging big data to meet future skills demand in the labour market.” The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has developed a taxonomy that captures…
Read MoreWhy Taxonomies Matter
Taxonomy is the practice and science of classifying things or concepts. Those of us in the business of information science know it as the essential tool to make content findable, regardless of the subject. Many others know it as the branch of science concerned with identifying and classifying species. It is not always regarded as…
Read MoreMaking 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 MoreThe 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…
Read MoreFindability 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…
Read MoreAccess Innovations Announces Agreement with the Association for Materials Protection and Performance
Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce they have contracted with the Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP) to refresh their taxonomy, re-index their database, and provide indexing services for new content as it is added. AMPP is a new organization launched from a merger of the National…
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