Posts Tagged ‘Taxonomies’
Search and Find
Search has many parts, pieces and players in both the software and the technology. A search engine is different from search software. The terms are used interchangeably by people, but they are not the same. Search software is an application and a search engine is a collection of servers with large amounts of data on it…
Read MoreGlossaries, Taxonomies and Guides – Just Another Day at Work
Taxonomist Mary Chitty has compiled a comprehensive Biopharmaceutical Glossary website complete with taxonomies and guides.
Read MoreData Alignment: Good Data Means Better Business
June 7, 2010 – In a client meeting last week, we heard, “I needed to retrieve the Wilson proposal but I had to wade through two screens of results before I could locate the document I wanted.” We took a quick look and saw that the document creator had assigned uncontrolled free text index terms.…
Read MoreDow Jones and Automatic Taxonomy Generation
September 30, 2008 – An eager beaver reader (I only have two or three) sent me a link to “Taxonomies for Human Vs Auto-Indexing.” The author of the Synaptica Central write-up is Wendy Lim. She is summarizing or reproducing information attributed to Heather Hedden. From a bibliographic angle, I think a tad more work could…
Read MoreLibrary of Congress Word List May 30, 2009
Short honk: Quite a few taxonomy discussions this week. I need to demo an authority list. I turned to the Library of Congress. If you want a copy of the authority list in XML, navigate here and click go. Stephen Arnold, May 30, 2009
Read MoreTaxonomy: Search’s Hula-Hoop
I received several thoughtful comments on my Beyond Search Web log from well-known search and content processing experts (not the search engine optimization type or the MBA analyst species). These comments addressed the topic of taxonomies. One senior manager at a leading search and content processing firm referenced David Weinberger’s quite good book, Everything is Miscellaneous. My…
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