What if your data could connect itself? Imagine a system that stores information and understands how it all fits together. That’s the power of an ontology. What Is an Ontology? In Information Science, an ontology is a structured framework for representing knowledge within a domain. More simply, it connects objects and concepts through defined relationships, …
Ontology 101: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Use It Read More »
At IAC24, Joan Hua gave a very good presentation on how to get yourself oriented in a new domain quickly. As taxonomists and information architects, getting into a domain is so important to the process – it allows us to communicate effectively with SMEs and other stakeholders, and it helps us in making sense of …
Getting Oriented to Your Client Quickly – Part 1 Read More »
My kids aren’t old enough to have jobs yet, but somehow that hasn’t prevented them from collecting a lot of stuff. As they get older and celebrate more birthdays and Christmases, the amount of stuff they have gets larger and larger. My coworker Connor Cantrell recently wrote an article about the concept of “weeding” in …
This is a topic that’s been pretty near and dear to me, as I’m currently involved in an effort to migrate an enterprise taxonomy to an updated taxonomy management system. As part of the migration effort, I went back through old documentation to get a better understanding of why certain decisions had been made previously …
Your Taxonomy Governance Plan Is Incomplete without a Documentation Maintenance Plan Read More »
