Taxonomy

Five Myths about Taxonomy and SharePoint

A couple of weeks ago there was a blog post, or repost by Jeff Carr, on the Early Site. I enjoyed reading it, and of course I have a few thoughts and places where I do not exactly agree. Let me take them on this week. There are 5 Myths. I will write about each of them separately. Myth #1: SharePoint now has taxonomy management.

Spreadsheets Being Replaced by Taxonomies

By |November 16th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Spreadsheets Being Replaced by Taxonomies

Taxonomy management tools have come a long way in tackling content organization challenges. However there seems to be no consistency in the tools and their approach. This is key as corporate requirements for search and content management have changed and grown for tools that help organizations create, administer, and publish semantic structures.

Taxonomy and Its Many Uses

By |November 15th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Taxonomy and Its Many Uses

Taxonomies are not limited to scientific or biomedical data. They may be used more often for that type of data, but online retailer Plumbworld, […]

Comedy of Errors

By |November 11th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|1 Comment

I confess. I am a grammar snob. And it has gotten much worse since I joined Facebook. If I see one more “that is a great ideal”, or “their is a bird outside” status update, I will scream. Even Word corrected the wrong choice of word when I was writing this post. If Clippy knows better, why don’t educated professionals?

Standards and Taxonomy – Nice Match

By |November 10th, 2011|News, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Standards and Taxonomy – Nice Match

The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) has released a draft taxonomy of the cybersecurity workforce and it shows functions divided into seven broad categories of jobs - securely provision, operate and maintain, protect and defend, investigate, operate and collect, analyze, and support.

The Challenges of Music Taxonomy

By |November 9th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Challenges of Music Taxonomy

Classification in music continues to be complicated. Musical taxonomy is challenging as even the most disconnected and isolated genres manage to refer to each other. Look at Wikipedia to the various genres and you will find even more genres and sub-genres, with ironic mash-up names.

When will it be finished?

By |November 7th, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on When will it be finished?

Is it final? Finally! I recall Rex Harrison playing Pope Julius II, shouting up to Charlton Heston as Michelangelo, something like, “When will it be finished?” To which Michelangelo-Heston replied enigmatically, “When I’m done!” Michelangelo spent most of five years (1477 to 1480) on his back painting the Sistine Chapel. The Pope’s impatience was not without justification as he was financing the project while trying to recapture former Papal territories filched by the Borgias.

Webinar: Drilling Down to the Challenges of a SharePoint Taxonomy Implementation

By |November 4th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Webinar: Drilling Down to the Challenges of a SharePoint Taxonomy Implementation

Continuing with the SLA Taxonomy Division’s webinar series, the next webinar is titled “Drilling down to the Challenges of a SharePoint taxonomy implementation” and will be held Wednesday, November 9th at 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST).

Faith Demonstrated in Taxonomy

By |November 4th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Faith Demonstrated in Taxonomy

The debate over faith and a belief in a higher power managed to bring a perfect example of taxonomy to clarity. This interesting, thoughtful and somewhat humorous topic was inspired by the article, “Haught v. Coyne: The Debate of the Century (Not)” on Evolution News and Views.

Path to Innovation

By |October 28th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Path to Innovation

What is innovation management? It is similar to content management or content sharing. Maybe it should be called content liberation software since sharing knowledge is the acceptable behavior. How should a company approach innovation since it rarely just happens?