Posts Tagged ‘Taxonomy’
Metadata and Taxonomies
In the business world today, industry leaders are dealing with unprecedented amounts of data. Data beyond our imagination. The same is true of metadata. It is impossible to properly take advantage of the value and knowledge that data contains without proper organization. The Nation Roar brought this topic to us in their article, “Metadata Management…
Read MoreBridging the Information Divide
Data accessibility is the degree to which people in your organization can use data. That is to say that data isn’t just available, but usable — even for people with little to no experience working with data. Industry Week brought this topic to us in their article, “Too Often, the Right Data Isn’t Getting to the…
Read MorePowering Search
Semantic search seeks to improve search accuracy by understanding searcher intent and the contextual meaning of terms as they appear in the searchable dataspace. This is true in a closed system or on the Internet. It is providing context to a search query beyond just keywords. The possibilities and limitations of semantic search grow as more and…
Read MoreTaxonomy and Anthropology
Taxonomy is the science of classification – a basic means of understanding the world around us. It is also key in the act of identifying and archiving, as well as classifying. This interesting topic came to us from Reflector in their article, “Anthropology students help reclaim history of local cemeteries.” East Carolina University students in…
Read MoreTaxonomy and Data Mining
Real world big data are largely dynamic, interconnected and unstructured text. To transform such massive unstructured data into structured knowledge is a common goal. Penn State News brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Talk to explore power of taxonomy and embedding in text mining.” Equipped with domain-independent and domain-dependent knowledge-bases, it…
Read MoreLooking at Word Origins
I love words. I love learning the origin of words, word play and word puns. All things word related always catches my eye. This interesting information came to us from The Herald out of Scotland in their article, “Scots Word of the Week.” Languages reflect what linguists call folk taxonomy, traditional naming-systems that change over…
Read MoreTaxonomy’s Origins
It is always important to understand the past and the contributions made by pioneers in science that make it possible for emerging technologies and information sciences to continue to evolve and thrive in the 21st century. In the world of taxonomy, that pioneer is most definitely Carl Linnaeus. This was brought to us by The…
Read MoreSemantic Search Technology
Semantic technology is a frequent topic of conversation in the information science world. Machine learning or semantic technology is the basis for most commercial artificial intelligence (AI) systems. But where does semantic search fit in? Semantic search seeks to improve search accuracy by understanding searcher intent and the contextual meaning of terms as they appear…
Read MoreKeeping It Real
When we talk, we speak in natural language. This language may be raw, rich, and sometimes messy, but it is real. When we organize our information and label it, however, there is so much richness, variance, and confusion in terminology that we often need to impose some order to facilitate agreement between the concepts within…
Read MoreTaxonomies are the Foundation to Findability
Let’s start with the basics. Taxonomy is the organization of content into categories or topics and audiences to define content types. Taxonomies exist in every industry from science to information management to healthcare. Taxonomies provide consistency in terms and categories to enable findability in content. Findability is the ease with which information can be found. It means that users can easily find…
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