Taxonomy – Page 76

Comedy of Errors

By Melody Smith | November 11, 2011 |

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 Melody Smith | November 10, 2011

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 Melody Smith | November 9, 2011

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 Melody Smith | November 7, 2011

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 Melody Smith | November 4, 2011

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 Melody Smith | November 4, 2011

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 Melody Smith | October 28, 2011

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?

The Big C’s

By Melody Smith | October 26, 2011

Combing content, commerce and community can be a trifecta of problems. Making two of these work well together is a challenge, three is, well, hard. The problem is that content, commerce and community are generally managed in different systems.

Governance is Key

By Melody Smith | October 25, 2011

There are a lot of issues with implementing taxonomies – designing, building, and of course the technical swarm of terms. These challenges are typically what get all the attention and focus. What is quite often forgotten and of equal importance, if not more, is governance.

Understanding Taxonomies

By Melody Smith | October 19, 2011

Just the word taxonomy can confuse people, let alone the application. First they ask, “oh is that where you preserve dead animals?” Then they think it has something to do with the IRS. When you finally get them to understand it is a classification system, they have flashbacks to high school biology class. Taxonomy unfortunately has that effect on many, and that is sad. It is just bringing order to a group of items and identifying relationships. It’s not rocket science.