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FYI: SAE's Classification Schema Use Survey*

Submitted by KeithDeWeese on Wed, 10/30/2013 - 4:45pm

375 people participated in SAE's classification schema use survey; and, 240 completed it.   To the first question, "Which classification scheme do you/your company use?" it's notable that the answer "Taxonomy" registers the highest number of response while "I do not know" is a distant second ("Ontology" comes in third.)  More from the classification survey to come. *Faith, Ashleigh et. al. “Classification Schema Use.” Survey. 29 September 2013 through 15 October 2013.

Video: Unlocking Healthcare Data with Clinical NLP

Submitted by KeithDeWeese on Mon, 10/14/2013 - 4:17pm

With the launch of Obamacare just a few weeks behind us, those of you engaged in controlled vocabulary development related to natural language processing (NLP) might be interested in Clinithink's CLiX, technology that "enables healthcare providers and solution vendors to extract knowledge from the clinical data trapped in the free text of discharge summaries, clinical notes, and other documents." To learn more about CLiX, check out the video .

FYI: The IPTC Descriptive NewsCodes...

Submitted by KeithDeWeese on Thu, 10/03/2013 - 9:08am

Even if you don't work with the news, you might be interested in knowing more about the tags that many newsrooms apply to content.  Though formed in 1965 to "safeguard the telecommunications interests of the World's Press," the IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) has, since the late 1970s, been focusing "on developing and publishing Industry Standards for the exchange of news data of all common media types."   Today, IPTC's member base is made up of approximately 60 news companies, organizations, and associations.

In the News: Did Edward Snowden Kill the Search Engine Optimization Industry?

Submitted by KeithDeWeese on Tue, 10/01/2013 - 8:22am

Nothing like a provocatively titled news item to start the day!  Among other things, it looks like Edward Snowden might, indirectly, be the nemesis of the SEO industry; at least, that's what Fmr. US Army Commander and Director of Marketing at DigitalRelevance, Chad Pollitt, teases us with in the Huffington Post. Read more about what algorithm Hummingbird and keyword obfuscation might mean to the SEO industry here…

In the News: The New Age of Disruption

Submitted by KeithDeWeese on Sat, 09/21/2013 - 5:14pm

Check out Greg Satell's Forbes piece, "The New Age of Disruption," for a read on the "semantic economy," open innovation, small and big data, the "Web of Things," algorithms, and so much more.  Beware: Buzzwords abound; but, Satell's attempt to cover a lot of ground quickly, and with a minimum of pain, provides for a good read.  Might be a good piece to share with your boss.  Read more about disruption here...

Is Your Content Plan Equipped for Content Engineering?

Submitted by KeithDeWeese on Mon, 09/16/2013 - 8:43am

"For enterprises with large amounts of content...traditional content management systems quickly encounter pitfalls...How will you implement a taxonomy, ensure consistent metadata, or make sure content ties to specific user profiles?"  
 
To read more about content engineering and what it entails, including taxonomy, check out Kevin Howarth's article at

In the News: How Taxonomies Help News Organizations Understand and Categorize Their Content

Submitted by KeithDeWeese on Tue, 09/03/2013 - 7:00am

Anna Li, Poynter.org, August 30, 2013 News organizations such as the Associated Press, The New York Times and Thomson Reuters are teaching computers to categorize text and images by building robust taxonomies that their systems use to tag news content. Adding digital information under the hood in this way helps link stories together and serve up relevant content to news audiences. In a recent interview with Poynter, Associated Press staffers talked about the AP’s News Taxonomy and why a news organization might consider using it.

In the News: Tech Gurus Wrestle with Database Change

Submitted by KeithDeWeese on Mon, 08/26/2013 - 2:13pm

With ontology development part of NoSQL discourse, you might want to check out of Dataversity's NoSQL Conference held August 20-22, 2013 in San Jose.  Albertson describes "how the quantum leap in processing huge amounts of data is transforming the technology to actually make it all work."  For more info, too, on NoSQL, check out Dataversity's site here...