Taxonomy Watch

Search Harmony

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:30 GMT

Taxonomy enhanced search software at Perfect Search Corporation.

"Search Harmony is taxonomy enhanced search that includes hierarchical browse navigation, automatic query completion using taxonomy terms and their synonyms, contextual presentation of related terms to broaden the search and narrower terms to refine the search, spell check, "more like these" sets, and recursive searches. Based on Access Innovations' MAIstro automatic indexing and thesaurus software suite, it provides well formed data and highly accurate search results. Used on top of search software, it provides the best of breed in recall, precision, and relevance searching. "

Time for Enterprise Tagging

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:29 GMT

Social Tagging and the Enterprise: Does Tagging Work at Work? By Stephanie Lemieux, Earley and Associates, User Interface Engineering (Mar 1 2010)

"But just what is social tagging in the enterprise: a cheap solution to information organization in difficult economic times, giving people the tools they love at home to use at work, or just a faddish attempt to incorporate "cool web 2.0 stuff" into the enterprise context?"

Explains what tagging in enterprise context would mean and names some benefits.

Semantic Technology Uses for Financial Services

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:21 GMT

Semantics in Financial Services Presentation, Daniela Barbosa Chitchatting about Information Delivery,(Jan 18)

Semantic web technology is sweeping through organizations as more and more companies show how it can be used.

Here Daniela Barbosa points us to a presentation done at a meetup in San Francisco on Semantics in Financial Services with David Newman, a Senior Architect in the Enterprise Architecture group at Wells Fargo Bank/Wachovia.

Categorization, ontologies, data schemas are some of the parts.

Semantics in Financial Services -David Newman

View more presentations from Peter Berger.

The slideshow goes through

+ benefits
+ semantic technology: ontology, basic principles, basic concepts
+ some providers and adopters
+ use cases
+ recommended books and journals.

H5 EDGE Classifier

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:28 GMT

H5 Introduces H5 EDGE™ Classifier for Enterprise Information Governance, press release, H5 (Jan 27, 2009)

"SAN FRANCISCO – January 27, 2010 – H5, a leading provider of automated information retrieval products and services, today announced the availability of the H5 EDGE™ Classifier, the first of its Electronic Data Governance Engine (EDGE) products for the enterprise. Developed in response to the growing market need for more effective information classification technologies and client demand for H5’s accurate assessments behind the firewall, H5 EDGE Classifier gives companies the ability to make highly accurate, automated decisions on information using their existing technology infrastructures."

Schemas and vocubalaries

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:54 GMT

Here are two resources that may help people in using schemas to build taxonomies.

Schemaweb.info/ - " SchemaWeb is a directory of RDF schemas expressed in the RDFS, OWL and DAML+OIL schema languages. SchemaWeb is a place for developers and designers working with RDF. It provides a comprehensive directory of RDF schemas to be browsed and searched by human agents and also an extensive set of web services to be used by software agents that wish to obtain real-time schema information whilst processing RDF data. "

Vocab.org/ - " A URI space for vocabularies"

Thanks to SLA Taxonomy Wiki