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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Metadata At this point, we all live in the digital universe. We order our goods online, we conduct most of our business digitally, and we socialize and interact virtually. The internet of…
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What Is a Homograph? What is a synonym for thesaurus? You may have heard this question floating around as a social media meme or at a conference for taxonomists. Interestingly,…
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As the Synaptica team prepare for Taxonomy Boot Camp London we talked with Helen Lippell, an experienced data and information professional, about her involvement with developing the event. Helen is…
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Bias in the Machine Let’s say you upload a photo of yourself and the software automatically tags your face as a gorilla. Your first reaction might be you find this…
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Getting Meta “In epistemology, and often in common use, the prefix meta- is used to mean about (its own category). For example, metadata are data about data (who has produced…
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