Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 3

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.

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Understanding Linked Data

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.

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Making the Step to Auto-Classification

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.

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Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 2

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.

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Of Taxonomies, Biology, and Moneyball

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”.

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2012: What Lies Ahead?

This time of year I read a lot of trends and reviews. What happened last year and what will happen in the coming year is a popular topic and it is in fact a good time to take stock and think about initiatives for the year ahead. So here is what I see coming down the road for 2012.

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Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

I know I can’t be alone in the amount of spam email I get daily. In fact, I probably receive a lower amount than most. It is amazing that I actually find my real mail, mail I actually want to read, in the middle of all the junk. Then there are the spams that cloak their selves in pretend reality. They are like the fake checks that come in snail mail that are actually offers of credit or some other promotion.

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