Beyond Posting Counts: Giving Taxonomists a 360 Degree View of How Concepts are Applied to Content

DCMI Virtual 2020

DCMI Virtual was a program of virtual, invited and moderated sessions including keynotes, expert panel discussions, tutorials and presentations. The conference was interactive, with moderated question and answer sessions and ran from Monday September 14th to Friday 25th September 2020. Dave Clarke shared a case study in which an ontology was used to create content description profiles and bi-directional APIs. The solution provided users with an innovative ability to review qualitative as well as quantitative details about how concepts are used.

Keynote: Discovery for SharePoint

Developing the ‘killer app’ taxonomy experience for SharePoint.

For years we have advised clients that there are just some things they can’t do with their taxonomies once they migrate them to the SharePoint Term Store. Restrictions within SharePoint prevent much of the richness of thesauri and non-hierarchical relationships from being expressed. A breakthrough solution has been developed through a joint venture effort between Synaptica and Search Explained. Dave Clarke and Agnes Molnar briefly review the common pain points experienced in SharePoint taxonomy implementations for this keynote talk at KMWorld – demonstrating innovative new user experiences that transcend common pain points and deliver a taxonomy-rich search, browse and tagging experience within SharePoint.

The hype around knowledge graphs

Many of us have experience of building different kinds of knowledge organization systems, and now knowledge graphs are another tool in our taxonomy toolbox. Dave Clarke explored the role of KOS in an accessible and straightforward way. For this keynote as part of TBCL19 he puts KOS in the broader context of knowledge graphs and their component taxonomies, metadata and data.

Validating a taxonomy with stakeholders

Bob Kasenchak outlined how the validation phase of a taxonomy project is crucial to mediating a dailogue between the taxonomist and the various stakeholders and consumers of their work.

Extending SharePoint taxonomy

Ahren E. Lehnert and Agnes Molnar, Search Explained presented a case study of a custom-built UI which can add taxonomy management features such as related terms and polyhierarchy to the native SharePoint Term Store.

Catching the Wave 

Dave Clarke, CEO, Synaptica on Tools and Technology for Taxonomists. This keynote presentation also includes some initial insights from the recent Taxonomy Practitioners Survey 2018. This talk was presented at Taxonomy Boot Camp 2018 events in London and Washington D.C.

SPARQL, You Taxonomy Star!

Jim Sweeney spoke at Taxonomy Boot Camp 2018 in Washington D.C. on defining, designing and accessing Linked Data.

Using Ontologies for More than Information Categorization 

Ahren E. Lehnert, Senior Manager, Text Analytics Solutions, Synaptica explains how ontologies can be used in other ways. This talk was presented at both London and Washington D.C. Taxonomy Boot Camp events in 2018.

Using Structure in Taxonomy-based Auto-Categorization 

As part of the Text Analytics Forum 2018 in Washington D.C. Ahren E. Lehnert gave a presentation on structure and auto-categorization as part of a series of talks on new techniques in text analytics.