We are testing some automatic classification algorithms and would like to know if there is any testbed or benchmark we could use, with a good number of...
Some friends of mine used documents from the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Each US public company has to file documents with them, such as the 10K...
Hi Jeff, I would start with the ANSI/NISO Z39.19 -2005 "Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies," ...
Hi, My name is Claudia Urschbach. I'm a Senior Information Architect working for the BBC. I am currently working in a department that provides a CMS-solution...
Claudia, welcome! Joining TaxoCop is a good move. I'm sure you'll find lots of answers to your questions here. If you remember, we met, together with several...
Now that I've joined the Taxonomy Community of Practice, I'd like to take a moment to introduce myself to the group. First a little background. My name is...
Hi David, a fascinating journey! Have you taken a look at NetCat? They specialise in transforming large hardcopy publications into "chunked" web content...
Hi all - In past conversations, someone at some point introduced to me the distinction between a "content taxonomy" and a "navigational taxonomy". I never...
Hi Lee, I work for an engineering search engine and we have this distinction too, although our terms are Internal Taxonomy (your Content Taxonomy) and Website...
I will be out of the office starting 12/10/2007 and will not return until 12/14/2007. Please send me an email and I will respond when I can. Thank you....
Yes, Every node or bottom link on our website taxonomy is mapped back to a single area in our internal taxonomy. There is a "home" record that has an ID and...
Lee, By what you describe as your "Content" and "Navigational" Taxonomies, I have defined as the "Functional" and "Presentational" Taxonomies. That is, the...
Kevin Hannon wrote: ... Well, I'm just a visitor to taxonomyland, but... In some sense, if you already have a faceted taxonomy (which at least one responder...
... Coming at this from the librarian's/book-indexer's perspective, there is a meaningful distinction. The terminology I'm familiar with to describe the...
Hi Lee. The company I'm freelancing for now uses both "navigational" and "descriptive" taxonomies. The descriptive taxonomies (same as "content" taxonomy you...
Hi, I work for a Fortune 100 insurance company. I am a Records Manager. We use Filenet and are working towards implementing ECM and ERM solutions for the...
Hello, I'm wondering how to find taxonomy "success stories" out there. We are wondering whether to invest the time and resources it takes to develop a ...
Just a quick note to say that the Call for Participation for the upcoming Documentation and Training Life Sciences 2008 Conference are open. The theme of the...
I was asked to send my first message -- so here goes. I have recently put up a rather ambitious website << http://www.alphabeticalist.com >> and am interested...
Hi, I suggest you ask the Taxocop group for more up to date examples. I refer you to to 'Taxonomies: Frameworks ...' Benefits and Case studies sections. A...
Abbott, a Fortune 100 Company located north of Chicago, has an exciting opportunity available for an Enterprise Search Program Lead. To apply, submit your...
... because there's little way to predict how things will be named, hence we can't predict where to start in an alphabetized list. I see no listings for...
... part: I see no listings for lasers, and nothing for machine tools. I happen to make much of my living with laser machine tools and related stuff. ... It...
I thought I would chip in on this discussion as well. First, there was a good session in London run by the International Society for Knowledge Organization...
... Hi, Marty Sorry for the tone of my last message. I'll look forward to seeing the growth of your site. I've put a wee bit of laser/machine tool info up...
Hi Marty, quite an ambitious endeavor to undertake. I have a question - you say that each link will bring up 10 to 100 abstracts, which will then take you to...
