The Semantic Web As a taxonomist and employee of a company which publishes taxonomy and ontology management software, semantics and the Semantic Web are never far from mind. Semantics is “the study...
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Graphite KOS 4.0 Well, what a long, strange trip 2020 has been. We made it! Here we are! Synaptica continues to work diligently on updating and improving our ontology management software, Graphite, and we’ve made a lot of additions...
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Consider the small hierarchical structure shown at right; you might find something like it in any number of product, e-commerce, or indexing taxonomies: Although this structure seems reasonable at first...
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The Solo Taxonomist I don’t know about you, but in the early days of taxonomy efforts at organizations I’ve worked at, the role of the taxonomist often stood alone. Of course, there wouldn’t be...
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It Is What It Is As a taxonomist, when I hear the expression “it is what it is,” I’m tempted to define the subject (“it”) of this statement as categorically clear. It is what...
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KMWorld Connect The annual KMWorld Conference went virtual this year as KMWorld Connect from November 16th - 19th with the pre-conference workshops running November 12th-13th. The co-located conferences, Enterprise Search & Discovery, Taxonomy Boot Camp, and Text Analytics Forum were...
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Since we’re all stuck inside (more or less), I thought I’d write some recommendations (and short reviews) of books in the information space (taxonomy, ontology, knowledge management, information architecture, content...
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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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The Associated Press is an independent, not-for-profit news cooperative headquartered in New York City. AP works with organizations of all sizes across a broad spectrum of industries and is considered...
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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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