A Taxonomy As the year and the decade come to a close, I’d like to leave on a self-reflective, and hopefully humorous, note on our industry. In this spirit of...
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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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During the summer the team at Synaptica was able to secure an interview with Bram Wessel as part of our Insights series. We talked to him about how his early...
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Synaptica v9.0 Has Arrived Synaptica KMS v9.0 is here, and the user interface has been completely overhauled. As a Synaptica developer I am anticipating there will be a period of...
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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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What Is a Homograph? What is a synonym for thesaurus? You may have heard this question floating around as a social media meme or at a conference for taxonomists. Interestingly,...
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Synaptica talks with recognized taxonomist, blogger and author of The Accidental Taxonomist (Information Today) Heather Hedden. Heather works with Gale/Cengage Learning as a Senior Vocabulary editor and lives in Carlisle,…
We recently noted what for us was a thought-provoking detail when comparing Gartner’s “Hype Cycles” from 2016 to 2017. There are undoubtedly lots of very perceptive observations on trends and…
Organizational Placement In my last blog, I discussed what a text analyst does and what types of individuals may fill a text analyst role. In this blog, I’ll try to...
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What Is the Long Tail? The long tail of search is a concept typically used in retail and search engine marketing represented by a graph detailing the distribution of search...
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