This fall was supposed to be my 25th class reunion at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, but since traveling to gather in large groups is obviously inadvisable the event was made virtual....
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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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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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Fit-for-Purpose Taxonomies A common request from our customers is the ability to deliver the right terms at the right time. Delivering the right terms at the right time is more than simply maintaining taxonomies...
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Visualization I’ve been thinking quite a bit about visualization lately. At Synaptica, we’ve been doing internal visualization development on our Graphite product. I also recently attended the Information Architecture Conference...
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Ontology Model In a recent blog, I created a typology of types, a taxonomy of taxonomists, as a humorous guide to the wonderful ways of working employed by taxonomists. My...
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In my previous post on this topic I discussed how using ontological structures allows more precise modeling of relationships between concepts in a controlled vocabulary (knowledge organization system). Another definitive...
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Knowledge Management The fundamental challenge in the discipline of knowledge management is that knowledge captured and represented outside of the human brain is never quite as accurate, reliable, or easy...
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The Information Ecosystem I like to think of information systems as ecosystems in which technology, people, and processes interact in a (hopefully) symbiotic relationship. In such an ecosystem, information is...
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Graphite KOS 2.0 What’s more exciting than fixing bugs in a pending software release? Releasing the software (and, hopefully, releasing it bug free)! Coming soon is Graphite 2.0, the same...
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