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Enterprise Knowledge Graphs have been on the rise. We see them as an incredibly valuable tool for relating your structured and unstructured information and discovering facts about your organization. Yet, knowledge graphs have been and still are far too underutilized. … Continue reading
Choosing the Best Metadata Fields For Your Taxonomy
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Taxonomy Lines Blur Without Governance
Taxonomies are constantly evolving and growing alongside the businesses they serve. Users are not static and neither are their processes or the content they create and consume. Ensuring that the taxonomy grows holistically means keeping the entire vocabulary in mind … Continue reading
RACI+F: An Agile Tool for Taxonomy Maintenance
Keep It Simple for the Stakeholders, should be the guiding principle for taxonomy design and maintenance. Stakeholders know the business but don’t need to get bogged down with the intricacies of taxonomy design. A taxonomy governance plan, therefore, should be … Continue reading
Validation Techniques to Enhance Usability
In this recent presentation from Taxonomy Bootcamp 2017, part of KMWorld, EK consultants Ben White and Tatiana Cakici discuss various validation techniques to ensure usability of taxonomy designs.
Fixing Enterprise Search, Part 2 of 2
In the final part of his two-part series on fixing enterprise search, Joe Hilger discusses the concept of action-oriented search, why it’s important, and how changing your mindset from one of “using search to find” to one of “using search … Continue reading
Fixing Enterprise Search, Part 1 of 2
In the first part of his two-part series on fixing enterprise search, Joe Hilger discusses some common misconceptions around “fixing” search for organizations. He describes the importance of looking beyond search engine tools to truly understand an organization’s search requirements and … Continue reading
4 Steps to Content Auto-Classification with High Accuracy
As technologies evolve, we have seen the rise of auto-tagging, auto-classification, and auto-categorization tools that attempt to take over the task for describing the content we create. These tools apply metadata tags automatically so we don’t have to. Yet, in … Continue reading
Knowledge Organization Systems: When to Scale Up
The Findability Problem Here at Enterprise Knowledge (EK) we design systems which optimize the findability and discoverability of your knowledge and information. There are a lot of different forms this takes including: Designing a portal which allows a diverse workforce … Continue reading
Faceting is Sweet
In my nearly twenty years of taxonomy design consulting, one of the greatest challenges has been explaining the value of taxonomy to non-taxonomists. This is a particular passion of mine, and one in which Enterprise Knowledge has invested a great … Continue reading