A Dark Place For a Taxonomy

In an effort to establish better security, one dark web intelligence company has called for an industry-wide, standardized framework for evaluating and describing goods and services for sale on underground forums. This interesting and somewhat concerning topic came to us from Info Security in their article, “Researchers Call for a Shared Dark Web Taxonomy.” The dark…

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Taxonomy of Sorts

If you have been a reader of TaxoDiary for any amount of time, you know that I like finding odd and unique taxonomies. I find it comforting to know that taxonomies exist in all parts of our lives, not just information science or biology. NPR brought this heartwarming taxonomy to us in their article, “Tag Yourself (I’m A Maggie):…

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Taxonomy and Classification Analyst 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.…

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Where to Start

Oftentimes when someone is approaching a project like a website, book, etc., they begin with a chart. In reality, more often than not, that chart is really the beginnings of a taxonomy. Even if the subject isn’t scientific or technical, taxonomies help you understand a topic better. This interesting topic came to us from the…

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All Part of the Family

The difference between taxonomies and ontologies is a topic that can confuse even the most seasoned data professionals. But it is important to remember that taxonomies and ontologies form the underpinnings of how machines learn and understand. DATAVERSITY brought this news to us in their article, “Taxonomy vs Ontology: Machine Learning Breakthroughs.” Cognitive computing technologies are responsible…

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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…

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Data 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.…

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Dow 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…

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