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It’s Good to Have Friends

By Melody Smith | March 15, 2011

The Taxonomy Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) wants you to recruit your friends for membership. This is one of those times that you benefit from having so many friends because the division member with the most recruits wins prizes!

Taxonomies in Book Store Organizations

By Melody Smith | March 14, 2011

There are many approaches to the building of a thesaurus and taxonomy. No absolutely right or absolutely wrong methods exist but there are some that are not as efficient as others. Some which lead to bias in the resulting work. Some which will not work with the data the client actually wants to surface on a website or data mine or tag. There are some very expensive approaches and some very practical approaches to doing the work.

Taxonomies and Social Media

By Melody Smith | February 28, 2011

Any discussion of online media today cannot ignore the elephant in the room that is social media. Facebook will reach 700 Million Users by the end of 2011, according to Ted Shelton of Open-First. If anyone had any doubts about the revolutionary power of social media in general and Facebook in particular, those doubts have certainly been swept away by recent events in the Middle East. Not least among the many disruptions caused by social media is the way it has changed how people search, discover, and use content. Significantly, this impact is not limited to people’s personal lives, because social media is increasingly being used by businesses and institutions. Agencies and corporate marketers are scrambling to come up with ways to control messaging across the over 900 million “Tweets” generated by Twitter users every month, but these one-to-many and many-to-many communications (via “re-tweets”) have revolutionized the way business is conducted. Content professionals, and especially those in Knowledge Management and Enterprise Content Management, are beginning to ask what role we should be playing in this unfolding trend.

Be a Presenter at Taxonomy Boot Camp

By Melody Smith | February 24, 2011

Taxonomies are a critical part of the information architecture. It makes your information work. But you already know that. So how about sharing your successes and experiences at a unique networking event?

Taxonomy Ranks #1 in Best Practice

By Melody Smith | February 23, 2011

Sixty CIOs and IT leaders gathered together to learn from their peers about how to transform their organization into a service oriented organization and how to run their department like a stand-alone business. At the end of all the presentations, five best practices were indentified and taxonomy development was first on the list. Are you really surprised? We weren’t.

DocuXplorer Offers Taxonomy Consulting

By Melody Smith | February 23, 2011

DocuXplorer has hired Rachel Lurie, MLS, to head the taxonomy division of its Consulting Services unit. According to their spokesperson, this new position will now provide clients with “customized taxonomy training.”

Taxonomy Information Sources

By Melody Smith | February 21, 2011

I am often asked where can I find out more about software and taxonomies to reuse? There are a number of attempts to organize taxonomy resources on the web. Some are more up to date than others.

Taxonomy Guide Released by the University of Toronto

By Melody Smith | February 17, 2011

Gary Price has launched a new resource site sharing his knowledge of the search and information industries, called InfoDocket. One of his recent posts caught our eye, “A Glosssary of Taxonomy Terms and List of Taxonomy Materials (Books, Sites, Etc.)”

Research Classification Needs Clear Taxonomies

By Melody Smith | February 16, 2011

Funding models and how they influence research endeavours haven’t always been the topic of cocktail parties, let alone gatherings of professional researchers. However there is considerable discrepancy in the models deployed across the continents and one author at least, thinks it should be discussed.

Why Use A Taxonomy Management Tool?

By Melody Smith | February 14, 2011 |

This question was recently asked and addressed in a community online forum that my colleagues and I participate in quite frequently. It occurred to me that though it seems like a simple question with an even simpler answer to those of us who live, breathe and eat this stuff every day – it certainly bears revisiting.