It Is What It Is As a taxonomist, when I hear the expression “it is what it is,” I’m tempted to define the subject (“it”) of this statement as categorically clear. It is what…
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This fall was supposed to be my 25th class reunion at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, but since traveling to gather in large groups is obviously inadvisable the event was made virtual.…
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The Taxonomy Campaign It’s an election year, so what better way to talk about kicking off a successful taxonomy campaign in your organization than comparing it to a political campaign? After…
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Visualization I’ve been thinking quite a bit about visualization lately. At Synaptica, we’ve been doing internal visualization development on our Graphite product. I also recently attended the Information Architecture Conference…
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Ontology Model In a recent blog, I created a typology of types, a taxonomy of taxonomists, as a humorous guide to the wonderful ways of working employed by taxonomists. My…
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In previous posts I have described how a knowledge graph is an ontologically modeled structure that is attached to some kind of data. At this point, the graph is just…
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In my last blog post I discussed the “rise of the knowledge graph” and hinted at why, in some situations, it’s useful to go beyond the standard thesaural relationships (BT,…
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Organizational Placement In my last blog, I discussed what a text analyst does and what types of individuals may fill a text analyst role. In this blog, I’ll try to…
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