Jenni Doughty, Author at Enterprise Knowledge

How to Explain Ontologies to Any Audience

Jenni Doughty April 19, 2022 . Blog

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about how we can better explain complex, semantic concepts like ontologies, knowledge graphs, and data fabrics to others in an approachable, easy-to-understand manner. I’ve been in any number of situations where I’ve struggled to … Continue reading

How Do I Implement A Taxonomy?

Jenni Doughty September 3, 2021 . Blog

Congrats, you have a taxonomy! It is a strategic milestone for many organizations whether the taxonomy is instantiated in a taxonomy management system of some type, or, as we much more commonly see, stored in a spreadsheet. Regardless, your next … Continue reading

Taxonomy Implementation Best Practices

Jenni Doughty February 8, 2021 . Blog

Have you ever found yourself wondering how to implement a taxonomy you’ve just designed or updated? You might have asked yourself, “How do I make this taxonomy work in SharePoint? In Salesforce? Oracle Knowledge Advanced?” You are not alone. Many … Continue reading

Enterprise Level vs. Team Level Taxonomies

Jenni Doughty October 15, 2020 . Blog

Many of our clients ask us how to maintain taxonomies at both the enterprise and the team level without duplicating effort, overcomplicating systems, or burdening end users with multiple metadata fields. Depending on the size of your organization, the size … Continue reading

Best Practices for Successful Metadata Governance

Jenni Doughty June 29, 2020 . Blog

Metadata governance is often seen as burdensome, tough to implement, and even harder to prioritize. When organizations embark on a metadata initiative, they tend to focus on design and development rather than governance. Metadata and taxonomies are living tools that … Continue reading

Keys to Successful Ontology Design

Jenni Doughty May 7, 2020 . Blog

Ontologies can capture highly complex ideas and business logic, provide more intuitive ways to structure information, and can ultimately power new use cases, such as semantic search, recommendation engines, and AI. While many organizations aim to leverage an ontology, they … Continue reading

Why a Taxonomist Should Know SPARQL

Jenni Doughty April 1, 2020 . Blog

As the Knowledge and Information Management field moves towards adopting semantic technologies like ontologies and enterprise knowledge graphs, taxonomists and taxonomy managers need to know about W3C semantic web standards including RDF, SKOS, SPARQL because data is becoming more interconnected … Continue reading

How Leveraging Existing Taxonomies Can Jumpstart Ontology Design

Jenni Doughty August 12, 2019 . Blog

Taxonomies and ontologies are both types of Knowledge Organization Systems, or KOS. Different types of KOS can be seen as a continuum, starting with a simple folksonomy where users of content can add free form tags with no control or … Continue reading

How to Distinguish Between Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Metadata Fields

Jenni Doughty July 23, 2019 . Blog

When designing an enterprise taxonomy, the number of possible metadata fields that can be used to describe content can be overwhelming. Depending on the type of content, the size of the organization, and the breadth of that organization’s functions, the … Continue reading

Achieving a Gold Standard Taxonomy

Jenni Doughty February 26, 2019 . Blog

One of the first steps of a taxonomy design effort is to gather any previous taxonomies that may exist within the business, as well as sample content, search logs, and pre-existing information about these taxonomies’ content or systems. At EK, … Continue reading

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