Digital Asset Management

Linked Data: An Introduction | Navigating New Horizons. I keep hearing the term Linked Data, but what does it mean? More or less what it says. All the data on the Internet linked together. And that is important to me because…? Your company, like everyone else’s company has a number of separate processes going. Accounts, marketing, [...]

I Have Yet to Metadata I Didn’t Like » AI3:::Adaptive Information. Contrasted with Some Observations on Linked Data At the SemTech conference earlier this summer there was a kind of vuvuzela-like buzzing in the background. And, like the World Cup games on television, in play at the same time as the conference, I found the droning to be [...]

An Executive Intro to Ontologies » AI3:::Adaptive Information. Ontologies are the structural frameworks for organizing information on the semantic Web and within semantic enterprises. They provide unique benefits in discovery, flexible access, and information integration due to their inherent connectedness; that is, their ability to represent conceptual relationships. Ontologies can be layered on top of existing information assets, which [...]

An ontology of social media data for better privacy policies. Privacy continues to be an important topic surrounding social media systems. A big part of the problem is that virtually all of us have a difficult time thinking about what information about us is exposed and to whom and for how long. As UMBC colleague Zeynep [...]

The Content Strategy Noob » Taxonomy: A “Disambiguation”. “Taxonomy” is an ancient scientific practice. It means to find names for things. In naming things, you try to figure out how sets of things are related to one another, so that each, unique item will not only have a unique name, but also a reference to [...]

Image via Wikipedia Skills of a Classy Taxonomist « The Taxonomy Blog. At SemTech in June 2010,  several speakers including Professor Deb McGuiness drew a very clear line was drawn between what a taxonomist does and what an ontologist does.  Taxonomists build hierarchies, and ontologists determine classes or categories.   In other words, ontologies are neat [...]

Web 3.0 will be a catalyst for a paradigm shift that’s at least a few more years away. But it won’t result in a sudden brave new world of information management, regardless of what marketing materials and industry thought leaders would have you believe

Taxonomy: The New Hip « Answer Maven. Several years back the word taxonomy meant little to others than those in the academic circles or librarians. However, in recent years taxonomies have been gaining in popularity in the corporate world and in medium and smaller organizations. The reason for this can be seen in the incredible [...]

Search Facets » Visualizing Facets. by Mark Burrell Every UX designer working on faceted search and discovery applications faces a key challenge.  How to present facets that instantly tell users: What’s available within the collection or information space? Which actions will help users meet their goals? To meet this challenge, faceted user interfaces need to [...]

By Scott Brown In the second part of Scott Brown’s real life case studies on using, reusing, and repurposing information we move into the real Bermuda Triangle. Where exactly does the information go that we, as professionals, provide for our clients/users? What ‘use’ do they make of it? We all need to show value in [...]