Russell Glenister, writing on the whichstockagency.com blog describes some of the less than enlightening descriptions that microstock photos often have applied to them:
“First, let us take a brief look at bad keywording and descriptions because, although it’s a problem for microstock companies as they insist their contributors post …
Continue reading »Taxonomy Bootcamp on 15-16th November 2010 in Washington DC promises a series of in-depth sessions about how to design and use taxonomies effectively. The topics covered include:
Writing on the Zylab blog, Johannes Scholtes offers 6 practical tips for designing taxonomies. As Johannes points out in the introduction:
“…the role of taxonomy is becoming increasingly important to the complete search experience as well as the automatic classification of documents in various applications.” [Read …
Continue reading »The IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) and PLUS (Picture Licensing Univeral System) have a released a free Adobe Bridge plugin which allows users to view and edit the full set of IPTC Core, IPTC Extension and PLUS metadata frameworks.
The toolkit includes:
Writing in the Taxonomy Blog, Marlene Rockmore considers whether the GoodRelations retail ontology developed by Martin Hepp is possibly a “Game Changer” (yes, another one). Marlene discusses a case study with retailer best buy:
“GoodRelations is a retail ontology, which offers facets or classes, metadata descriptions and attributes …
Continue reading »As reported by David Riecks on ControlledVocabulary.com Apple’s Aperture 3 does not preserve IPTC Extension and PLUS embedded metadata from PhotoShop files:
“IPTC Extension and PLUS metadata does not survive a round-trip through Aperture 3. I had tested this previously with Photoshop CS5 beta, but as that product had …
Continue reading »In “Cyborg Metadata“, Matt Moore of Innotecture proposes that in the future, metadata will increasingly be managed by machines and users rather than subject experts or information architecture specialists. The abstract is below:
“Traditionally, metadata has been managed by experts. This article suggests that in the future, …
Continue reading »Transcription specialist, 3Play Media, have announced the availability of a plug-in which links a transcript of the text of a video to spoken word footage. The timeline can be searched for occurrences of a given term either across a single video or an entire library:
“Installing an interactive …
Continue reading »In this post, Phil Simon explains the significance of Master Data Management (MDM), the process of assigning reference data that can be used to correlate and aggregate information across multiple enterprises repositories:
“Many large organizations have long been hamstrung by redundant or mismatched data sitting in silos, making …
Continue reading »Following the revelation that Facebook, Flickr and other social media sites routinely strip embedded metadata from images, it has been revealed that Google does the same from thumbnails in image searches. Gunar Penikis, formerly of Adobe and leader of the OpenSAMSN project makes this point in a recent …
Continue reading »In this article on the Ux Booth blog, Donna Spencer outlines a number of different classification schemes that are commonly encountered in Information Architecture (IA) designs when used for content delivery:
“When you do information architecture work you’ll realize that most sets of content can be organized in …
Continue reading »Continuing his “8 Things” theme, John Mancini, president of AIIM presents “8 Things You Need to Know About How Taxonomy Can Improve Search” by guest blogger, Heather Hedden from Earley Associates. The 8 points are:
