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...
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seth_earley
Apr 18, 2005 3:24 am
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seth_earley
Apr 19, 2005 5:00 am
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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TaxoCoP@yahoogroups.com
Apr 20, 2005 3:33 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the TaxoCoP group. File : /Welcome to...
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Melanie Kendell
melaniekendell
Apr 20, 2005 5:28 am
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...
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seth_earley
Apr 20, 2005 5:40 am
Good point.. Yes, the full hierarchy is Top > Business & Finance > Companies > Publishing > Indexing. So the term Indexing made the most sense, but the...
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Melanie Kendell
melaniekendell
Apr 20, 2005 12:52 pm
... 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...
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Lee Romero
pekadad
Apr 20, 2005 12:52 pm
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...
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seth_earley
Apr 20, 2005 1:12 pm
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...
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seth_earley
Apr 20, 2005 1:16 pm
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...
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Marcel van Mackelenbe...
marcelvanmac...
Apr 20, 2005 3:52 pm
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...
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David Eddy
deddy205ar
Apr 20, 2005 4:07 pm
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...
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Janice M Herd
merclenguas
Apr 20, 2005 5:41 pm
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...
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David Eddy
deddy205ar
Apr 20, 2005 7:27 pm
... 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? ...
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seth_earley
Apr 20, 2005 7:27 pm
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...
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Janice M Herd
merclenguas
Apr 20, 2005 8:48 pm
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...
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David Eddy
deddy205ar
Apr 20, 2005 8:50 pm
... 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...
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marktruly
Apr 21, 2005 5:12 pm
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...
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Janice M Herd
merclenguas
Apr 21, 2005 7:34 pm
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....
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Marcel van Mackelenbe...
marcelvanmac...
Apr 22, 2005 4:56 am
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...
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David Eddy
deddy205ar
Apr 22, 2005 4:56 am
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...
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HALL Bill
williamphall
Apr 22, 2005 11:45 am
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...
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Janice M Herd
merclenguas
Apr 22, 2005 12:42 pm
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...
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Janice M Herd
merclenguas
Apr 22, 2005 12:44 pm
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...
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seth_earley
Apr 22, 2005 1:15 pm
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....
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Marcel van Mackelenbe...
marcelvanmac...
Apr 22, 2005 2:47 pm
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...
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Janice M Herd
merclenguas
Apr 22, 2005 2:48 pm
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...
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David Eddy
deddy205ar
Apr 22, 2005 4:03 pm
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...
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seth_earley
Apr 22, 2005 4:13 pm
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...
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Janice M Herd
merclenguas
Apr 22, 2005 6:35 pm
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...
