Taxonomy

Sep 30

On Polyhierarchy

By Bob Kasenchak Taxonomy, Taxonomy Management

Definition In taxonomy, a polyhierarchy refers to any hierarchical structure that allows a term to have multiple parents. (The opposite concept, monohierarchy, is used to describe taxonomies that do not allow polyhierarchy.) Polyhierarchy does not apply…

Sep 13

Taxonomies from A/B

By Ahren Lehnert Ontology, Taxonomy, Taxonomy Management

Comparing A to B While recently discussing taxonomy versioning with a few of our clients, they cited A/B testing as one of their use cases for creating taxonomy versions. In addition to creating point-in-time versions of…

Sep 02

On Granularity

By Bob Kasenchak Categorization, Taxonomy

In taxonomy, granularity refers to the number of terms describing a concept and its sub-concepts. This rubric can apply to an entire vocabulary or some subset. In short, the question…

Aug 05

On Disambiguation

By Bob Kasenchak Taxonomy, Taxonomy Management

I am not a fan. A taxonomist working on any taxonomy of sufficient size and scope will encounter disambiguation issues. This occurs when the label for a term isn’t clear…

Jul 28

Building Healthy Relationships (in Ontologies)

By Ahren Lehnert Controlled Vocabularies, Ontology, Taxonomy, Taxonomy Management

Relationships It is fundamental human nature to form relationships. Forming a relationship between two people is based on transparency, mutually beneficial outcomes, and trust. The world of online semantics is modeled on…

Jul 08

Insights Interview: Marisa Hughes, APA

By Vivs Long-Ferguson Taxonomy

For this Insights interview we talked with Marisa Hughes about her work as Taxonomist for APA Publishing at the American Psychological Association (APA) in Washington, DC. APA is the leading…

Jun 28

Facets Are Forever

By Ahren Lehnert Taxonomy

Facet-nating Recently, I was asked by one of our clients to consider writing about faceted classification and, specifically, how to go about an analysis to determine which facets should be…

Jun 03

Taxonomy Theory and Practice

By Bob Kasenchak Taxonomy

1. Theory In the land of information science (related to but distinct from generalized information theory, which is much more mathematical and concerned with, for example, signals), taxonomy theory is more or less dictated…

May 27

Ontologies and Ethical AI

By Ahren Lehnert Ontology, Taxonomy

What Is Ethical AI? Ethical, or responsible, artificial intelligence (AI), “is the branch of the ethics of technology specific to artificially intelligent systems. It is sometimes divided into a concern…

May 19

Virtual Event | Ontology as the backbone of content discovery

By Vivs Long-Ferguson Ontology, Taxonomy

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London Wednesday, June 9th 2021 15.00-15.45pm BST The Synaptica team are taking part with our clients The Royal Pharmaceutical Society in the next Bite-sized virtual event…