This article was originally published in the MESA M + E Journal Spring 2024. Abstract: Many organizations invest significant resources in tagging their content, with varying results for accuracy and…
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Joyce van Aalten is an independent taxonomy consultant and trainer. She has 15+ years’ experience with taxonomy, thesaurus, ontology and knowledge graph projects for a broad range of customers. For…
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For this interview we invited Sarah Downs, our Director of Client Solutions, to talk with Dr. Dorian Selz, the Co-Founder and CEO of Squirro. Prior to co-founding Squirro, Dorian founded…
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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…
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Sarah Downs joined the Synaptica team as Director of Client Solutions earlier this year. For this Insights interview, we found out more about Sarah's experiences, being a client of Synaptica…
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Legacy in Language There are potential or new clients who come to us with a definitive version of their taxonomy, typically in a spreadsheet format like CSV or Excel. The…
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Records Management According to ARMA International, “Records Management is the professional field dedicated to information that rises to the level of importance that requires ongoing maintenance, whether it be for…
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A Single Taxonomy Controlled vocabularies are meant to provide a single source of truth for terminology. Within the enterprise, the goal of a taxonomy program is to have one or…
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Hierarchy Depth “Taxonomy” has become the de facto term for most types of controlled vocabularies, including flat lists, authority files, simple hierarchies, or thesauri. Whether we choose to be pedantic…
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For our Insights series we talked with Helen Lippell and Bob Kasenchak about Taxonomies: Practical Approaches to Developing and Managing Vocabularies for Digital Information. This curated anthology by Helen Lippell…
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