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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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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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…
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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Since lots of people are WFH (USE Telecommuting) right now due to the global pandemic, it occurs to me that, in addition to the uptick in usage of some terms...
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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…
Synaptica talks with Narendra Venkatramani, Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing for Scope eKnowledge. Narendra, known as Venky, is based in Chennai, India. Scope provides Content Enhancement Services, Data Management…
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…
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