Managing information has been an issue since the dawn of time. Juggling rocks, etchings, parchments, paper, floppy disks and now metabytes are really all part of the same challenge. Where to put it, how to find it and what does it mean? The advantage we have today is there are plenty of software options to assist in these tasks. There are also guidelines and standards that allow users to manage their ever precious content with consistency and skill.
This series of blog posts is exploring how search works. We need to have a basic understanding of search fundamentals in order to know where taxonomies come in. Last week we started talking about search software and today we will continue with that topic. I believe in the data first as you know. Staring in the diagram with your Source Data you can see how the data flows. You need to clean the source data to a uniform format. This is often called the conversion process or the ETL - Extract Transform and Load.
Sometimes when you work in an industry or are affiliated with it, you start throwing around terminology and acronyms that not everyone may completely understand. I hope we don’t practice this behavior here at TaxoDiary on a regular basis, but I fear it may have happened on occasion.
Many turn to auto-classification systems to find some level of consistency and scalability, especially when (and this is very common) there are more than one indexer tagging content. There seems to be a feeling that moving to auto-classification systems requires a sacrifice of rich and quality indexing.
This series of blog posts is exploring how search works. We need to have a basic understanding of search fundamentals in order to know where taxonomies come in. Last week we started with the various modules of search. This week we are addressing the search software itself.
This series of blog posts will explore how search works. We need to have a basic understanding of search fundamentals in order to know where taxonomies come in.
Baseball and biology are not commonly found in the same conceptual space. Neither do you find taxonomy associated with baseball, but in recent news these connections were made. Grant Bisbee, Editor, “Baseball Nation”, digresses into the arcane as he laments the coming of the “He’s In the Best Shape of His Life” season. This is the time of year baseball writers must assess the prospects for the coming season and clichés and hyperbole rein. The dubious practice of evaluating the physical condition of players runs rampant as spring training begins. With tongue in cheek Bisbee tries to shape a taxonomy to classify this spring ritual. His would be the taxonomy of the “In the Best-shape Stories”.