Jim Sweeney, Author at Synaptica

Jul 03

Squirro Acquires Synaptica: A Strategic Fusion of Generative AI and Knowledge Graph Technologies

By Jim Sweeney Knowledge Management, Taxonomy

Squirro, a leading Swiss-headquartered global SaaS platform specializing in enterprise-ready generative AI, search, and business insights, proudly announces its acquisition of Synaptica, a renowned US-based SaaS provider of enterprise taxonomy…

Nov 29

Breakthrough Moments in Enterprise Taxonomy Management

By Jim Sweeney Categorization, Graphite Knowledge Studio, Taxonomy, Taxonomy Management

Earlier this month at KMWorld in Washington DC I got to meet many of Synaptica’s clients, technology partners, as well as some new faces from the community. It’s always a…

Apr 13

Building Semantic Knowledge Organization Systems with Graphite and GraphDB

By Jim Sweeney Graphite, Knowledge Management, Ontology, Products

This is an abbreviated version a presentation from the Ontotext and Partners Knowledge Graph Forum 2021 titled “Building Semantic Knowledge Organization Systems” by Dave Clarke, CEO at Synaptica.When people talk…

Sep 18

Taxonomies – The Future is Now

By Jim Sweeney Ontology, Taxonomy

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…

Aug 24

Synaptica KMS Version 8.0 Feature Highlight: Linked Data

By Jim Sweeney Products

We are especially excited about an optional new feature in the new release of Synaptica KMS version 8.0 that can help to enrich your internal taxonomies by linking them to…

Aug 23

Controlled Vocabulary Management Systems

By Jim Sweeney Categorization, Ontology, Taxonomy

This blog includes some useful thoughts related to Controlled Vocabularly. Examples of controlled vocabularies are lists, synonym rings, taxonomies, and thesauri. Controlled vocabularies provide a way to organize knowledge for subsequent…

Dec 10

A CMS is not a Taxonomy Management Tool but a CMS Needs a Good Taxonomy

By Jim Sweeney Taxonomy

Today on a phone call, I used a point that I often use- "you can build the most 'beautiful' taxonomy ever but if you have nothing to use it for-…

Nov 26

A new way to search for video?

By Jim Sweeney Taxonomy Management

If you have been keeping up with my posts on this blog you won't be surprised to learn that today I spent my lunch hour exploring a video search offering…

Sep 26

Human vs Auto-Indexing | Guest Blog by Heather Hedden

By Jim Sweeney Taxonomy Management

Day 1 at Taxonomy Bootcamp covered a lot of basic taxonomy principles such as planning and implanting taxonomy, choosing taxonomy software and indexing principles. The talk by Heather covered the…

Sep 17

What is the Hardest Content to Classify?

By Jim Sweeney Taxonomy Management

The first theme that came to mind as I thought about topics to blog about is the whole area of classification of different types of content: text, sound, video and…

Jim Sweeney

Squirro Acquires Synaptica: A Strategic Fusion of Generative AI and Knowledge Graph Technologies

Breakthrough Moments in Enterprise Taxonomy Management

Building Semantic Knowledge Organization Systems with Graphite and GraphDB

Taxonomies – The Future is Now

Synaptica KMS Version 8.0 Feature Highlight: Linked Data

Controlled Vocabulary Management Systems

A CMS is not a Taxonomy Management Tool but a CMS Needs a Good Taxonomy

A new way to search for video?

Human vs Auto-Indexing | Guest Blog by Heather Hedden

What is the Hardest Content to Classify?

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