Ask Who? Taxonomies do not build themselves. Constructing any controlled vocabulary requires, at minimum, input from end users, subject matter experts, and a taxonomist. End users and subject matter experts can provide concepts and their attributes for inclusion…
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Knowledge Graphs We have talked about knowledge graphs before in blogs, webinars, and conference workshops and presentations. Our partners at Ontotext also do a good job of describing knowledge graphs in their blog. So, I’m not going…
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Graphite KOS 5.0 Another year added to Synaptica’s 25 (+1) tenure and already we have our second major release of our knowledge organization system (KOS), Graphite, in 2021. We are continuing to update and evolve Graphite’s functionality to meet our…
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Metadata At this point, we all live in the digital universe. We order our goods online, we conduct most of our business digitally, and we socialize and interact virtually. The internet of…
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Comparing A to B While recently discussing taxonomy versioning with a few of our clients, they cited A/B testing as one of their use cases for creating taxonomy versions. In addition to creating point-in-time versions of…
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Relationships It is fundamental human nature to form relationships. Forming a relationship between two people is based on transparency, mutually beneficial outcomes, and trust. The world of online semantics is modeled on…
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Facet-nating Recently, I was asked by one of our clients to consider writing about faceted classification and, specifically, how to go about an analysis to determine which facets should be…
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What Is Ethical AI? Ethical, or responsible, artificial intelligence (AI), “is the branch of the ethics of technology specific to artificially intelligent systems. It is sometimes divided into a concern…
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Things in Threes There is an expression that good things come in threes. There is also an expression that bad things come in threes. In Semantic Web standards, specifically RDF, the atomic data entity is a tripartite structure called a semantic…
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The Semantic Web As a taxonomist and employee of a company which publishes taxonomy and ontology management software, semantics and the Semantic Web are never far from mind. Semantics is “the study…
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