Voice Of America: Special English word List -- http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/wordbook-a.cfm These words were developed as a set of the most basic words...
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Martin Carbone
martycarbone
Jan 5, 2008 11:05 pm
Check out our page: http://www.howto-ville.com/productsandservices.html This page is essentially a linked abstract of the United States' "Classification System...
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Martin Carbone
martycarbone
Jan 5, 2008 11:09 pm
Many Yahoo groups have a links section where any group member can list good links to relevant topics. Such a section can be a valuable resource for the group. ...
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Seth Earley
seth_earley
Jan 6, 2008 4:00 pm
I just enabled the links section. Thanks for the suggestion Martin. Seth (list founder) Seth Earley President _____________________________ EARLEY &...
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Jenn
eowyn147
Jan 6, 2008 6:44 pm
Hello, all. I've been watching this community for a few months as I've been looking for a job. I graduated in May with my MS in Library and Information...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Jan 6, 2008 8:55 pm
Hi Jenn, Welcome and congratulations on your new job. If you would like advice, you need to provide more information about what your job entails. Is your...
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Keipat Patkei
keipat1962
Jan 6, 2008 9:45 pm
Hi Jenn, Yes, more info about what you'll be doing specifically would be helpful. I'm curious, too, about the MLIS prep. Library school prepared me very little...
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Mindy Newfarmer
mnewf
Jan 7, 2008 10:54 pm
Dear Taxonomists, Hello! I am working on a HUGE taxonomy/CMS project and need some of your expert guidance. I work for a college textbook publisher and we're...
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marijane white
meejies
Jan 7, 2008 11:09 pm
It sounds like you need an indexer with expertise in biology. The American Society of Indexers has an Indexer Locator at their website that includes a field...
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Marcus L. Endicott
mendicot
Jan 8, 2008 12:55 am
http://www.mendicott.com/blog/ 08 January 2008 Books, metadata and chatbots… in search of the XML Rosetta Stone I am an author and I build chatbots (aka...
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Keipat Patkei
keipat1962
Jan 8, 2008 1:11 am
Mindy, When you mention "vendors," are you also considering a semi-automated approach to associating vocabulary terms to content using an appropriate...
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Jenn
eowyn147
Jan 8, 2008 2:01 am
Is your taxonomy for internal use only or for external clients, etc.? External and internal Does a taxonomy exist already, or do you have to build one from...
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Jenn
eowyn147
Jan 8, 2008 2:29 am
I knew I was interested in the "technical services" side of librarianship from the beginning and that "subject access" was kind of my pet issue. (I wrote my...
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Suzi Kaplan, Key Info...
sewk
Jan 8, 2008 5:15 am
Hi Jenn - Which university still grants an MSLIS? Thanks, Suzi _____ From: TaxoCoP@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TaxoCoP@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jenn Sent:...
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Jay Maechtlen
jmaechtlen
Jan 8, 2008 5:58 am
Anyone using protege? http://protege.stanford.edu/ I see lots of links there to various ontologies- is this helpful in merging taxonomies or applying them? ...
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Gardner, Mike
micheal.gardner
Jan 8, 2008 8:19 am
I am not sure if this is answering our question, but you seem to need a simple tool to enable classifications to be defined and allow end users to apply those...
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Melvin Jay Kumar
melvink2
Jan 8, 2008 10:45 am
It depends on the approach you want to take. A fully automatic solution using classification tools or semi automatic , using tools to classifiy and using...
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Melvin Jay Kumar
melvink2
Jan 8, 2008 10:47 am
It depends on the approach you want to take....
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Melvin Jay Kumar
melvink2
Jan 8, 2008 10:54 am
Hi Jay, From my limited experience with protege, its more a ontology tool than a taxonomy tool. However after saying that, you can use it to a an extend to ...
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Jay Maechtlen
jmaechtlen
Jan 8, 2008 4:42 pm
... Hi, Jay Some had discussed merging taxonomies, or managing more than one taxonomy. I thought that an ontology might provide a connection between those ...
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Jenn
eowyn147
Jan 8, 2008 5:11 pm
Suzi, I'm a proud alum of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2007. Jenn...
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Lisa
lisadawncolvin
Jan 8, 2008 5:55 pm
Hi Jay (2), Typically, ontologies have stricter semantics around relationships between classes than taxonomies used for navigation. However, it's entirely...
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Jordan Cassel
ypc624
Jan 9, 2008 6:46 pm
Hi, My company released a hierarchical classification system for users to categorize their questions related to Automobiles in which community members and SMEs...
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Lee Romero
pekadad
Jan 9, 2008 7:18 pm
Hi Jordan - I don't have specific insight on this, but I think your intuition is correct. Of course, it also depends on how the categorization process works...
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Smith, Lisa
lisacabisa
Jan 9, 2008 11:23 pm
Taxonomy Analyst The Taxonomy Analyst will develop and maintain functional taxonomies in accordance with product strategy. This will include employing a range...
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Smith, Lisa
lisacabisa
Jan 9, 2008 11:24 pm
Categorization Analyst The Categorization Analyst will assist in the development and maintenance of rulesets to be used in automatically identifying products ...
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Ron Daniel
rdaniel_94518
Jan 9, 2008 11:50 pm
Hi Jordan, ... first/broadest ... A counter-example that comes to mind is eBay, where lay users typically do classify their content to the finest level of...
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Patrick Lambe
plambe2002
Jan 10, 2008 12:47 am
On reading this thread I was thinking that the motivation to classify more finely will count for a great deal, and Ron's example gives a good illustration. If...
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Jordan Cassel
ypc624
Jan 10, 2008 10:33 pm
Thanks for your feedback Ron. Good point about the motivation ($) factor to incent users to categorize properly on eBay. -Jordan ... From: Ron Daniel...
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bitstix
Jan 14, 2008 12:09 am
Jenn - I've just finished reading Patrick Lambe's excellent Organizing Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organizational Effectiveness ...
