Ren Pope is the Owner and Principal of Info-Do based out of Washington DC. He has over 25 years of leadership and vision in the information science field. Ren has held various...
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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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Bob Kasenchak and Ahren Lehnert, Synaptica Part three of the Stanford Knowledge Graphs course featured some examples of advanced graphs and graph applications. Video of this session is available here....
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Bob Kasenchak and Ahren Lehnert, Synaptica Stanford University’s computer science department is offering a free class on Knowledge Graphs available to the public (via Zoom meeting). You can sign up...
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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 previous posts I have described how a knowledge graph is an ontologically modeled structure that is attached to some kind of data. At this point, the graph is just...
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Taxonomy Lifecycles I’ve gotten many questions lately from both current and prospective customers about taxonomy lifecycle management as part of the taxonomy governance process. The questions pertain to both the...
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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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In my last blog post I discussed the “rise of the knowledge graph” and hinted at why, in some situations, it’s useful to go beyond the standard thesaural relationships (BT,...
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