Lately I’ve been mulling over the misleading nature of the term “artificial intelligence.” Taken without context, it connotes, unintentionally, the idea of an intelligence equal to human intelligence, only artificial. It is not. It is absolutely not. But I believe that much of the recent generative AI hype is stirred by companies taking advantage of …
Technostress, Misalignment, and “Artificial Intelligence” Read More »
A recent post I wrote on LinkedIn hit a nerve. Talking about information/semantic rich projects failing due to the lack of organizational commitment is not new, for me or others in the field. Unfortunately, the reasons for these failures are often hidden to the organizations and are often pinned on bad technology, complexity, or a …
My colleague Connor Cantrell recently wrote a piece on taxonomy governance, placing it in the context of collection lifecycle management in libraries. One of the primary reasons for governance, whether of taxonomies, metadata, content, data, records, books, academic journals, or any other digital or physical information asset, is to ensure that it’s managed in a …
Don’t Skip Steps, but Don’t Boil the Ocean: Practical Advice on Taxonomy Documentation Read More »
Taxonomy management is crucial for large organizations with diverse content, yet many systems struggle with modern taxonomy structures. Common issues include: Manual Updates, Limited Functionality, Flattened Taxonomies, Inadequate Support. These limitations hinder productivity and the effective use of taxonomies. I’m interested in learning about other challenges and effective platforms for managing taxonomies.
At Factor, our recent discussion on information modeling led us to explore personal organization. We asked team members to share their own organizing strategies. These insights reveal how personal experiences shape our organizing principles, balancing practical needs with personal preferences.
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 …
In my first year of library school back when I still thought I would be in academic libraries for the long haul, I took a digital information literacy class. One of our assignments was to map C.C. Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process (ISP) as established in her 1999 article “Accommodating the User’s Information Search Process: Challenges …
All organizations have unique sets of information and data requirements. Aligning organizational strategy to the information reality is fundamental to any repeatable and measurable information/data/content practice. Organizations in search of a successful repeatable information platform need alignment in many areas so that they can build the right solutions that allow them to connect with their …
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 »
