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Eighth Annual Data Harmony Users Group to Focus on Leveraging Users’ Investment in Knowledge Management Software Suite

By Melody Smith | January 10, 2012 |

The Eighth Annual Data Harmony® Users Group (DHUG) meeting, scheduled Feb. 7-9, 2012 in Albuquerque, New Mexico will focus on helping users get the most from their investment in the knowledge management software suite, which helps users organize information resources based on a well-built and systematically applied taxonomy or thesaurus.

Taxonomy Meetings 2011 – A Year of Change or Realization?

By Melody Smith | January 9, 2012 |

What are the meetings that cater to people who use controlled vocabularies, like taxonomies? Where should a taxonomist go, click, or attend to learn about the latest implementations and uses of controlled vocabulary strategies? Every company thinks long and hard both about what they do and where to find customers for their products and services. The Information Industry is no different. In the Age of the Internet when everyone’s “knows” about searching and information; it seems like the “information Industry” should be booming, its conferences should be huge, and the attendance incredible, but that is not the case. Why? If the information industry and our little taxonomy segment of the business has gone mainstream, then where are all the people you would expect at the long established industry meetings?

Findablity Can Be Fixed

By Melody Smith | January 9, 2012

A recent survey revealed two-thirds of organizations cannot access their information assets or find vital enterprise documents because of poor information classification or ‘tagging’. Having difficulty accessing your information or in short, with findability, is a fixable problem.

Taxonomies Power Resources

By Melody Smith | January 5, 2012

There are several reliable tools and websites that help government buyers find what they need in regards to information, products and services. What these resources have in common is the ability to search and find. They are more than search engines and platforms. They are sourced by strong taxonomies that uses semantic technology to make information findable.

Taxonomies Can Help Standardization

By Melody Smith | January 4, 2012

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has released a report that attempts to standardize products that exist in the world of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. This venture into taxonomies will help compliance efforts by improving the reporting under new regulations.

SharePoint and Taxonomies – Part VI of VI

By Melody Smith | January 2, 2012

Sharepoint is a popular software and comes free with the MicroSoft Server. In fact, I think Sharepoint, more than any other thing, has excited interest in taxonomies for people. Sharepoint 2010 has a taxonomy module and although it doesn’t have everything that your heart might wish for, it is a significant step forward. A lot of people have been trying to figure out exactly how to best use their taxonomy within the Sharepoint offering. This is one option.

Tagged and Topicmarks Merge

By Melody Smith | December 28, 2011

Tagged has announced an acquisition of Topicmarks. Tagged is the social discovery service and Topicmarks uses semantic engine to summarize content. The combination of these two should be interesting.

Data Visualization and Term Analytics – Part V of VI

By Melody Smith | December 26, 2011

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 21, 2011

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 21, 2011

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.