Blog Archives
A Guide to Selecting the Right Auto-Tagging Approach
Auto-tagging processes automate the manual labor of applying relevant keyword tags to data and content, enhancing accessibility and improving the organization of large datasets. Whether you’re trying to improve how quickly you find data or embarking on a content cleanup … Continue reading
Why Graph Implementations Fail (Early Signs & Successes)
Organizations continue to invest heavily in efforts to unify institutional knowledge and data from multiple sources. This typically involves copying data between systems or consolidating it into a new physical location such as data lakes, warehouses, and data marts. With … Continue reading
Consulting from Within: Best Practices for the Solo Taxonomist
On November 19th, 2024, Bonnie Griffin, Taxonomy Consultant, delivered a presentation titled “Consulting from Within: Best Practices for the Solo Taxonomist” at the 2024 edition of Taxonomy Boot Camp in Washington, DC. Griffin shared best practices to help solo taxonomists … Continue reading
How Semantic Layers Support Product Search and Discovery
Taxonomies have been in use for a long time on e-commerce websites. They help users find the products they want to buy by means of organized categories and subcategories of product types, and the feature of filtering by product attributes. … Continue reading
Optimizing Historical Knowledge Retrieval: Standardizing Metadata for Enhanced Research Access
Enterprise Knowledge (EK) helps a federal research and development center standardize their descriptive metadata to support content findability. Continue reading
The Role of Taxonomy and Ontology in Semantic Layers
Heather Hedden, Senior Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, presented “The Role of Taxonomy and Ontology in Semantic Layers” at a webinar hosted by Progress Semaphore on April 16, 2024. Taxonomies at their core enable effective tagging and retrieval of content, and … Continue reading
Generative AI for Taxonomy Creation
There is a growing awareness and appreciation for taxonomies as information and knowledge management tools. Taxonomies – structured sets of terms tagged to content – support search, information discovery, browse navigation, news alerts and feeds, content recommendation and personalization, content … Continue reading
Overview of Taxonomies and Artificial Intelligence
Heather Hedden, Senior Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, presented “An Overview of Taxonomies and AI” on January 30th, 2024, in the inaugural webinar of the “Artificial Intelligence webinar series: The promise and the perils,” hosted by the Knowledge & Information Management … Continue reading
Taylor Paschal to Facilitate World IA Day 2024 Richmond
Taylor Paschal, a Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, is teaming up with Jenny Sassi to organize the upcoming World Information Architecture Day local event for Richmond, Virginia. World Information Architecture (IA) Day, a global volunteer-run event, celebrates … Continue reading
Extending Taxonomies to Ontologies
Sometimes the words “taxonomy” and “ontology” are used interchangeably, and while they are closely related, they are not the same thing. They are both considered kinds of knowledge organization systems to support information and knowledge management. Yet there is often … Continue reading