http://taxonomysociety.com/blog1 Musings from the semantic mines Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:03:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The 2010 Global Information Policy Leaders conference held on January 12- 16, 2010 in Singapore gathered the best and the brightest in technology leaders, policy makers, regulators and entrepreneurs. How this taxonomist managed an invite can only be attributed to sheer luck and moxie. As I sat in ... http://taxonomysociety.com/blog1/2010/01/18/38/ In 2007 Ian Rowlands was commissioned to research The Behaviour of the Future Researcher by JISC and The British Library. For the Google Generation (those born after 1993) information retrieval was an integral part of their cognitive development. They learned their alphabet at the computer keyboard, navigated ... http://taxonomysociety.com/blog1/2008/07/07/the-google-generation/ I just returned from the two day London HS DAM/MOM Symposium where the food was phenomenal, as usual. They always have wonderful catering at those Henry Stewart events The rest of what was served up at the conference was a little less than palatable. The event lacked focus this ... http://taxonomysociety.com/blog1/2008/06/27/hs-digital-asset-management-symposium-london-2008/ TAXONOMY TIP: for those who attended the How to Build and Maintain a Successful Metadata and Taxonomy Strategy workshop. Don’t confuse the taxonomy with cataloging. This is one of the easiest mistakes to make. As you begin to understand how a taxonomy works, it’s common to try and express everything in a ... http://taxonomysociety.com/blog1/2008/03/13/taxonomy-tip/ The Essentials of Metadata and Taxonomy conference held on Monday, March 10, 2008 held in the CBI Conference Centre in London, was an interesting gathering of an ever-growing consortium of experts and novices trying to get their digital houses in order. The fact that so many different approaches were ... http://taxonomysociety.com/blog1/2008/03/13/essentials-of-metadata-and-taxonomy-conference-march-11-08/ Digitization was the buzz word at the 2007 FIAT/IFTA conference.  The archivists have all pretty much realized that going digital was beyond inevitable, but critical to their ongoing viability.  As such, the floors were teaming with representatives from Sony, Technicolor, Blue Order, to name just a few, who had generously ... http://taxonomysociety.com/blog1/2007/10/21/fiatifta-2007/ Noise reduction is at the heart of any metadata and taxonomy strategy. I am in Framingham working with the Bose Company and SEW Consulting discussing the role of metadata and taxonomy in managing their advertising and marketing content. And I cannot help but make correlations with their noise reduction headphones and ... http://taxonomysociety.com/blog1/2007/10/21/noise-reduction/