I wrote, not quite a year ago, a short post about some new words, phrases, and idioms emerging from the then-new pandemic in the context of controlled vocabularies. The point of…
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The Taxonomy Campaign It’s an election year, so what better way to talk about kicking off a successful taxonomy campaign in your organization than comparing it to a political campaign? After...
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For over fifteen years, Keith Bloomfield-DeWeese has been engaged in all aspects of metadata development, application, and management across the publishing, finance, and news media industries. Starting as an index...
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Graphite KOS 3.0 2020 has been an unprecedented year for many of us as we adjust to the disruptions in our normal lives, including working from home, travelling less or not at all, and finding new...
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Synaptica talks with the Archivist at the Defense Imagery Management Operations Center (DIMOC), based at Fort Meade, Maryland. DIMOC is part of Defense Media Activity (DMA), the Department of Defense’s…
We all know that building controlled vocabularies in enterprise settings is not simply a nice (fun?) intellectual effort. The point is to deliver value to the enterprise, whether it’s aiding…
The way companies are using software has been shifting- and if your head hasn’t been in the clouds over the last few years I am sure you have noticed the…
Here at the Synaptica most of our blog posts are focused on developing and managing complex taxonomies which is what our taxonomy consultants are usually doing at client sites during…
According to a recent global survey conducted by The Nielsen Company about trends in online shopping, over 85 percent of the world’s online population has used the Internet to make…
While I was at Enterprise Search Summit and Taxonomy Boot Camp, I heard some really interesting presentations. On Wednesday I sat in on a presentation by Ahren Lehnert titled “Taxonomy…
