Posts Tagged ‘Taxonomies’
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…
Read MoreAll 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…
Read MoreSearch 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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