Thanks for the warm welcome - Christine and Seth - I pasted in your replies below and will respond to both herein. Christine: It's great to hear somebody else...
447
Bob Doyle
bobodoyle
Nov 5, 2005 11:35 pm
Hi all, I'd like to introduce you to a new technique that could double or triple an organization's investment in a good taxonomy. Imagine that each node in the...
448
Seth Earley
seth_earley
Nov 7, 2005 2:49 pm
Hi Bob, I am trying to frame your ideas within my understanding of metadata and tagging. I'll pull out pieces of your message and respond to them individually....
449
Richard Beatch
rbeatch
Nov 7, 2005 2:52 pm
Interesting idea, but it seems to me to be a step backwards rather than forwards. Let me use an example from my organization: In the past we had a search...
450
Seth Earley
seth_earley
Nov 7, 2005 3:22 pm
Hi Richard, I think you nicely summarized the dilemma. Yes, in effect this is a keyword tagging process. But I don't see this necessarily as a step backward,...
451
Marcia Morante
mmorante2003
Nov 7, 2005 4:59 pm
The initial post and the responses all mention relevance. My own belief is that relevance is specific to each individual and as such, its use as an ordering...
452
Richard Beatch
rbeatch
Nov 7, 2005 5:17 pm
Marcia, While you are correct that relevance means different things to different people, I think that there are some things that can be sensibly done. For...
453
Deserie Valloreo
vallordr
Nov 7, 2005 10:09 pm
Hello, I am working on a business case for enterprise search and the design and development of an enterprise taxonomy and ontology. In addition, the business...
454
Christine Connors
CJMConnors
Nov 7, 2005 10:33 pm
Deserie - Can you give us some sense of the scope? The size of the organization and nature of its work? Or, the estimated size of the taxonomy/ontology? ...
455
Seth Earley
seth_earley
Nov 8, 2005 12:21 am
Hi Deserie, Here are some of the parameters for a typical taxonomy project. One consideration is whether you are going to do this internally or with external...
456
Bhojaraju G
bhojarajug
Nov 8, 2005 12:34 pm
Hi, I am doing a study on "Ontologies for ETDs" (Electronic Theses & Dissertations). So i wish to know about the following information urgently. - Major ETDs...
457
Leonard Will
leonard_will
Nov 8, 2005 12:59 pm
In message <17e809440511080434w7bfdc371vd5bc8ed3ddd7908a@...> on Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Bhojaraju G <bhojaraju.g@...> wrote ... - Commercial...
458
Seth Earley
seth_earley
Nov 8, 2005 3:18 pm
When it comes to full text search, the types of ranking you mention certainly make sense. I think we have to tackle the relevance issue with a detailed...
459
Thornton, Paula
iknovate
Nov 8, 2005 3:26 pm
Per Seth's reference below to tagging, I had an offline insightful discussion with an individual who has lived through the realities of "never keep up". Based...
461
Sarah Goldman
sgoldmanap
Nov 8, 2005 5:00 pm
Hello everyone. It's been a while since I have posted in here. I am interviewing for a taxonomy developer position. The job isn't available until January 1,...
462
Deserie Valloreo
vallordr
Nov 8, 2005 6:33 pm
Seth, Thank you so much for providing the parameters for a typical taxonomy project. This is exactly the type of information I was looking for. As far as...
463
Bob Doyle
bobodoyle
Nov 8, 2005 10:50 pm
Hi Marcia, Ever since Cyril Claverdon and his colleagues at Cranfield developed their metrics for precision and recall in the late 'fifties there has been...
464
Seth Earley
seth_earley
Nov 9, 2005 3:54 am
Hi Paula, I wouldn't say last resort, but certainly not all content requires it... I Seth ... From: TaxoCoP@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TaxoCoP@yahoogroups.com]On...
465
Seth Earley
seth_earley
Nov 9, 2005 4:13 am
I am glad that was useful. The next level of granularity would involve identifying specific audiences and doing a high level content review. Of the 100k -...
466
Seth Earley
seth_earley
Nov 9, 2005 5:03 am
Christine, I am curious if your process at Raytheon was similar to the one I outlined for Deserie... My guess would be that there are some important...
467
Christine Connors
CJMConnors
Nov 9, 2005 1:19 pm
A well-planned system deployment can cause many tags to be filled in automatically; date, time, business/org, function, author, author's location (the power of...
468
garmannancy
Nov 9, 2005 1:43 pm
I've just posted a call for speakers for Enterprise Search Summit at http:// www.enterprisesearchsummit.com/CallForSpeakers.shtml. Enterprise Search Summit...
469
Christine Connors
CJMConnors
Nov 9, 2005 2:57 pm
Yes, it's a bit theory in theory vs. theory in practice, isn't it? I don't have the luxury of being a consultant most times. Has our team used all of those ...
470
Richard Beatch
rbeatch
Nov 9, 2005 2:59 pm
Paula, by "tagging" below, I take it that you are exclusively referring to adding "keywords"; and not all types of tagging, such as adding metadata which...
471
Christine Connors
CJMConnors
Nov 9, 2005 3:12 pm
Bob - I've been reading with interest the responses to your post on a number of lists. I wonder if "meme owners" will really emerge - will people take the time...
472
Thornton, Paula
iknovate
Nov 9, 2005 3:45 pm
Richard: Yes. Thanks for the clarification. I apologize, I've been in a number of situations to where tagging and keywords were synonomous. ...
473
Lore
writer0101
Nov 14, 2005 5:26 pm
Having been politely and firmly warned by Seth Earley not to lurk on this site, I am taking this opportunity to announce my presence. That said, I am new to...
475
Jordan Cassel
jordan_cassel
Nov 15, 2005 3:58 am
Hello All, Nice to find this group out there. My name is Jordan, I'm currently working as Search Functionality Manager at YellowPages.com. I'm responsible...
476
bsherma9015
Nov 15, 2005 2:51 pm
Hello, My name is Becky Sherman I work for JCPenney.com and I am responsible for the site search. I am looking to learn more about taxonomies and...
477
Seth Earley
seth_earley
Nov 15, 2005 3:30 pm
Hi Becky, Welcome to the group. I recall having a conversation with you several months ago about your situation. Have you been able to reel any of the process...
