A Single Taxonomy Controlled vocabularies are meant to provide a single source of truth for terminology. Within the enterprise, the goal of a taxonomy program is to have one or…
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Semantic Relationships I wrote a blog, “Building Healthy Relationships (in Ontologies)” last year, and I’m returning to this content to explore the development of semantic relationships in more detail. Specifically,…
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Hierarchy Depth “Taxonomy” has become the de facto term for most types of controlled vocabularies, including flat lists, authority files, simple hierarchies, or thesauri. Whether we choose to be pedantic…
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For our Insights series we talked with Helen Lippell and Bob Kasenchak about Taxonomies: Practical Approaches to Developing and Managing Vocabularies for Digital Information. This curated anthology by Helen Lippell…
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This is an abbreviated version a presentation from the Ontotext and Partners Knowledge Graph Forum 2021 titled “Building Semantic Knowledge Organization Systems” by Dave Clarke, CEO at Synaptica.When people talk…
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Concept Names Language is inherently ambiguous. The dream to create universally agreed-upon, standardized conceptual language will be extremely difficult. We can achieve widely-accepted consensus, but that’s the silent agreement we…
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