Most DAM projects require some kind of migration these days as it is becoming rarer to find implementations where at least some kind of rudimentary facility was not in place initially. In many cases, it’s worse for earlier adopters of Digital Asset Management where the potential for some obscure, unsupported …
Continue reading »A new book released this month by information management consultant Heather Hedden, titled ‘The Accidental Taxonomist’, is an ideal read “for anyone challenged to build a business case for launching a taxonomy project, someone who needs to lead a building project, or is asked to participate on a taxonomy team …
Continue reading »In this article, Fran Alexander, discusses the need for ‘metadata about metadata’ and coins the term ‘parametadata’ to describe this information construct.
“Parametadata (or meta-metadata) is another subset of metadata – it is the metadata about the metadata, giving its provenance, date of creation, technical specifications, etc. Once you start …
Continue reading »In this article, Hanns Kohler-Kruner, Principal Consultant for HKK Consulting discusses whether taxonomy is still a relevant concept in a world where social tagging and other ‘looser’ information management approaches are commonplace.
“Of course Social Tagging implies the freedom of users to use whatever terms come most naturally when adding …
Continue reading »In this paper: Can Structured Metadata Play Nice with Tagging Systems? Joseph Dalton of the New York Public Library discusses the possibilities offered by mixing user generated tags and semi-structured metadata with more tightly defined and rigid methods of metadata classification:
“This paper discusses the rationale behind NYPL’s decision to …
Continue reading »In this article, image metadata and keywording specialist Liisa Kaakinen discusses how contemporary ideas of political correctness are forcing some historical archives to revise their metadata to provide more palatable terms for their media assets.
“…I looked over the shoulder of one of the keyworders and asked her what she …
Continue reading »In this article, Johannes C. Scholtes, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of ZyLAB, explains why extensible mark-up language (XML) provides unparalleled data conversion features and highlights eight other benefits that this mark-up language can bring to data archiving initiatives.
“Have you ever tried to convert 100 Gb of database, …
Continue reading »In this article, Wendi Pohs discusses why taxonomists should always be included on project development teams and provides an interesting case study to illustrate her point.
“Little bursts of controversy seem to occasionally erupt in the blog-o-sphere that ignite the debate about the “worth'” of taxonomy, and by extension, of …
Continue reading »Loraine Lawson on IT Business Edge discusses why metadata simultaneously adds value to sets of data but also makes it more complex to integrate different data sets. She makes the comparrison between metadata and money:
“You know how they’re always comparing IT to utilities or the phone company? Well, it …
Continue reading »In this article Rob Karel examines the reasons why, despite their paramount importance, so many metadata management strategies either fail or under deliver in organisations, and provides some practical steps for resuscitating a dying metadata initiative.
“There’s a reason for this unfortunate trend: a large number of IT professionals know …
Continue reading »On April 07, 2010 (1:00 – 2:00 EDT) Earley & Associates will host a webinar entitled “The Role of Taxonomy in Enterprise Architecture”. The webinar, which costs $50.00 to attend, will be presented by Leslie Owens (Analyst, Forrester Research) and will examine emerging trends in enterprise taxonomy and how organisations …
Continue reading »Do taxonomies work in an (open) semantic web? And how can these often isolated and rigid knowledge systems be effectively applied to a world of transient information? In this article, Fran Alexander, Taxonomy Manager at the BBC, discusses the ongoing importance of taxonomies in the management of information and how …
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