Hi Susan, How are you auto populating your metadata? That is always a challenge. Too many fields and it becomes too cumbersome. Other than date and author...
That is a really good question. In larger organizations there are many dependencies for controlled vocabularies. In some cases the change control is...
On our last Taxonomy Community call, we had a couple of presenters from the data side. Danette McGilvray who spoke about data quality and R Todd Stephens who...
Hi Susan, I have tried to achieve reuse for many, many years. With very little success though. In summary, these directions have been successful: 1....
Hi Beth, Personally I do not like when machines are thinking for me. I like it only when it is an extra possibility to see what the machine has found. For sure...
Hi Seth, We are gleaning a certain amount of Metadata from the folder structure, which we have cleaned up quite a bit to reflect a basic level of product...
The good news is that Taxonomy Boot Camp (last week in NYC) was a huge success, with more than 200 avid taxonomists in attendance, including several members of...
Thanks Nancy. Based on this year's agenda, CoP members could certainly ask specific questions that speakers might address here. (Most of the presenters are ...
Hello Seth, I attended, and thought it was terrific! Brenda Darrah Knowledge Manager American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 10801 Rockville Pike ...
Hi - a note of introduction, as I just joined. I've been part of some of the Taxo calls, met Seth at several different search conferences. Work at a 5,000+...
Hi, My name is Donna Wilkinson and I confess I am one of the long-standing lurkers - thanks for the encouragement Seth! I am Knowledge Manager for an economic...
FYI - slides from the presentations given by Joseph Busch and myself are now available from our website. Go to our homepage, www.taxonomystrategies.com, and...
Hi Donna. In the hope that 'promotional' items are admissible on TaxoCop, may I be permitted to bring to your attention two workshops and a seminar which I ...
anyone heard of, or have experience with, the Altova suite? http://www.altova.com/ specifically, Sematic Works? Cheers, M J Barczak MJB Indexing Service ...
Altova is best known for their XML tools. SemanticWorks is one of those tools, but it supports visual creation and editing. What are you thinking of using it...
Here's a snippet from the Altova newsletter I just received. New Ground Breaking Semantic Web Development Tool ... This week, Altova unveiled a new addition to...
I thought my fellow TaxoCoPpers might be interested in this message, posted to a comparative-anatomy mailing-list, which shows by an excellent example just how...
Hi I am new to this group. By profession I am Knowledge Management professional. My area of interests are KM, Ontologies, taxonomy and Digital library & Web...
Hello everyone - My name is Jason Brock and I just joined the TaxoCoP after attending the Taxonomy Boot Camp in NYC and hearing Seth's presentation. I work ...
Dear Bhojaraju G, In my Corporate Taxonomy workshop which I am presenting tomorrow at Aslib in London, UK, I describe the differences like this: a.. An...
Dear Barczak, M. J. I am currently evaluating Altova's Semantic Works (I have used Altova's other products XMLSpy, StyleVision & MapForce for some 3 years...
Hi Bob and Bhojaraju, We are drafting some relationships among Taxonomies, Thesauri, and Ontologies at http://www.cmsreview.com/IA/taxonomy.html There you will...
Hi all My name is Monica and I decided to join TaxoCop after hearing Seth's presentation at Taxonomy Bootcamp the other week. I am finishing up my Masters of...
Bob, I like the description of ontology vs. taxonomy and the information about thesauri. I also agree with your definition of classification which is...
Janice, Thanks for your kind words regarding my home-spun 'definitions' of ontology vs. taxonomy vs. thesaurus vs. classification. You are of course quite...
