Taxodiary – Taxonomy

Data Visualization and Term Analytics – Part V of VI

By Melody Smith|December 26th, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, semantic, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Data Visualization and Term Analytics – Part V of VI

A completely different kind of use is term analytics. We have talked a lot of text analytics in the past, where people take great big full text files and they run them through a lot of Bayesian, neural net, and latent semantic indexing kind of engines to figure out how to compare things. You could do that using a taxonomy instead and still figure out the strengths of the organization; what are the strengths in the publications; what are the emerging topics in your areas. You use people’s own data to address these questions and figure out the answers.

Semantic Technology in Health Information Services

By Melody Smith|December 21st, 2011|News, semantic, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Semantic Technology in Health Information Services

The semantic web is being used to compete with internet health sites in helping users manage their health. Healthline is one of many websites people turn to for health information. It isn’t the largest, when compared to WebMD and others, but it does set itself apart by focusing on a semantic taxonomy.

NogaLogic Version 3.8 Released

By Melody Smith|December 21st, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on NogaLogic Version 3.8 Released

Nogacom has released the 3.8 version of its NogaLogic data classification system. This new release offers users an easy and automatic solution to identify their sensitive data.

Taxonomies Promote Collaboration

By Melody Smith|December 21st, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Taxonomies Promote Collaboration

It is very common these days to see yet another new SaaS start-up. These new software companies seem to always focus on how the product looks and less on how it can help encourage collaboration.

Authors at a Place – Part IV of VI

By Melody Smith|December 19th, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Authors at a Place – Part IV of VI

Continuing with our series on semantic integration, let's discuss Authors. You can take a list of authors by place. Identifying marks or spots represent clusters of people who have published on a particular topical area. You take the author, their subject profile, and then attach to their address, the latitude and longitude of that address, and you can put them on a map. These kinds of match-ups are pretty cool.

The Importance of Humans

By Melody Smith|December 13th, 2011|indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Importance of Humans

Automation is one of the topics a Beyond Search writer has taken issue with recently. The involvement of humans with indexing and taxonomies seems to be a “for or against” issue. Few stand in the arena of neutrality.

Taxonomies Key to Findability

By Melody Smith|December 13th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Taxonomies Key to Findability

Findability is key for any document management system. Without being able to find documents quickly and easily, valuable time and money can be lost. This is achieved by creating strong taxonomies.

Paper Submission – Empowering the Authors – Part III of VI

By Melody Smith|December 12th, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Paper Submission – Empowering the Authors – Part III of VI

As we continue talking about semantic integration and more specifically, use cases; here is a different kind of use case. Somebody in this case is uploading an article (and you’ll see this again in other venues) in this case a conference paper to the American Society for Information Science and Technology site. A prospective author uploads their paper, they fill in the blanks as appropriate, and up pops a list of appropriate taxonomy terms. The author, the submitting person, can then check off the list of terms they think are appropriate to their paper. Then the paper is saved, already indexed. They will have already indexed their paper, which saves people a lot of time. In any kind of venue, folks can do their own indexing.

Taxonomy + Social Media = Findability

By Melody Smith|December 7th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|1 Comment

Social media seems to be factored into every area of technology these days. Taxonomy is no different. Having a defined taxonomy helps promote collaboration and connections by allowing people to quickly match content with an established set of defined keywords and terms.

Webinar Series: Taxonomies for Publishing

By Melody Smith|December 6th, 2011|Access Insights, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Webinar Series: Taxonomies for Publishing

Continuing with the SLA Taxonomy Division’s webinar series, the next webinar is titled “Taxonomies for Publishing: Enhancing the User Experience” and will be held Wednesday, December 14th at 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST).