Interestingly the first hurdle I had to creating this group was where to place it in the yahoo hierarchy. There was no term for 'taxonomy". (That would have...
During our planning call a couple weeks ago, we came up with a number of topics that people felt were important. Please comment on what you think will be most...
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Hi All Reading back to Seth's initial post to this group and the interesting challenge of where to put it in the Yahoo group hierarchy, I find it amusing that...
Good point.. Yes, the full hierarchy is Top > Business & Finance > Companies > Publishing > Indexing. So the term Indexing made the most sense, but the...
... Which brings up another point about metadata, that keywords are often misleading when they are taken out of context. I am making the assumption that...
Yes, it is odd that Yahoo Groups! uses finance. as the top domain for all business-related groups. That was a change a few years back because all groups were...
Interesting. That context of the term ("indexing a fund") did not even occur to me. So I agree, that points out the need to think of the users context when...
Yes, it is great illustration of our challenge. Someone came up with this hierarchy and now here we are trying to fit into it. Of course this system is a...
I think we are creating here the proof that hierarchies will not hold in the future (or now). "making taxonomies useful" is the most abstract container I can...
Seth - Thanks for bringing this topic to "public" discussion. I'm quite new to this arena under the au courant labels of taxonomy, ontology & semantics. As a...
Junkstop.com, You are certainly correct when you say that librarians have been organizing knowledge for many years and we have a great deal to teach those who...
... Assuming your a professionally trained librarian, do you have any speculations as to why there is such a chasm between librarian-ship and software people? ...
Excellent resources. We'll need to start cataloguing these in the Links section. I have heard Jean's roundtables are quite good. (They also make my events...
Seth, Keep in touch. There is lots more to come in the future. Jan ... Excellent resources. We'll need to start cataloguing these in the Links section. I have...
... I ***HATE*** it when those things called fingers at the end of my arms produce "your" when I was thinking "you're." <hrumph!> Which is a wonderful example...
There is a project forthcoming to create a taxonomy for a large data set. While I don;t know exactly what the data set contains, I am told it contains diverse...
Hi David, Most subject taxonomies tackle one subject domain. Therefore, the 18 meanings of a word would not all be relevant in the context of that taxonomy....
Hi Mark, For self-service it is hardly worth the effort to create a whole taxonomy for it. Use a package for automatic classification to tell you the important...
Janice - ... That's as far as I got (actually the "angels" example is just fine)... It has been my experience in software applications (primarily financial...
The idea to form a Taxonomy CoP is a good one, and is one that certainly fits well with my personal interests and work requirements. I work for a defence...
In any given system there is generally a number of taxonomies. Some of them may relate to each other, some not. For example, in financial systems you may have...
Marcel, What software are you using to do automatic classification. I don't see thesaurus-like display on your site in order to choose narrower or broader...
That sounds like a fascinating background for this area. It seems to me that natural systems and concepts of "self organizing" are very relevant to our field....
Hi Janice, The package I am using on my computer is called Infolution. It costs only 1000 euro's (approx $ 1300). It is made by some dutch firm. What I like...
FYI: The book Seth mentioned John Clippinger's book "The Biology of Business" You can see the bibliographic record and links to author biography, publisher's...
Janice - ... I beg to differ... while in an ideal world one SHOULD not mix stockyard & financial terminology together, inside a software system, there is no...
Hi David, Initially I considered rejecting this message as getting a little off topic, but rather than stifle conversation, I erred on the side of stimulating...
Software does a huge number of things. One of them is to integrate taxonomies (automated or humanly created) with databases, Web sites, etc. Well-formed...
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