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WordMap Makes Taxonomy Creation Simple

Sunday, July 08, 2007

One of the challenges of the information age is helping people find things. There are many ways to do this, but they all boil down to improving the two main approaches to locating information: navigation and search. Taxonomies are essential for improving both of these ...

Filed under: Taxonomy

Lisa Welchman: Finding and Reclassifying A Former Planet Creates Content Challenges

Sunday, October 01, 2006

In her CMS Advisor site, content management maven Lisa Welchman writes about the recent reclassification of Pluto. Welchman manages to link George Miller’s 1956 paper: The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information ...

Filed under: Content Management : Podcasts : Information Architecture : Taxonomy : Mishaps and Mistakes

Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content

Sunday, September 17, 2006

In Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content, Joshua Porter (User Interface Engineering) compares taxonomies—“they are very expensive to create and maintain...may fail to reflect the language of users”—to folksonomies. Porter writes: “One of the most ...

Filed under: Folksonomy : Taxonomy : Web Content Management

Tag! You’re It : Google Image Labeler

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Google Image Labeler, a “new feature of Google Image Search, allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google’s image search results.” Google Image Labeler addresses one of the biggest problems with social tagging folksonomies—the fact that we ...

Filed under: Folksonomy : Metadata : Taxonomy

Taxonomy Warehouse: One-Stop Vocabulary Shop

Monday, July 24, 2006

If you’re looking for industry or topical vocabularies, check out Taxonomy Warehouse, a comprehensive directory of over 500 taxonomies, thesauri, and classification schemes produced by nearly 300 publishers in 40 languages. The site is free and also offers information ...

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At Target.com “Customer Service” Remains a Mystery

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Target.com is the online storefront for the popular discount brick-and-mortar retailer whose bullseye logo was recently deemed one of the most recognizable brands in the world. Unfortunately for online shoppers, finding a human being to assist you on the telephone at ...

Filed under: Customer Support : Mishaps and Mistakes : Taxonomy : Mishaps and Mistakes