http://www.vocabcontrol.com Taxonomy. And stuff. Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:58:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is another write-up from the Henry Stewart DAM London conference. Identity and identification Robin Wilson discussed the issue of content identifiers, which are vitally important for digital rights management, but yet tend to be overlooked. He argued that although people become engaged in debates about titles and the language ... http://www.vocabcontrol.com/?p=215 This is the first of a series of summaries of the Henry Stewart DAM London conference on June 30, chaired by David Lipsey. The panels (one of which included me) were a pleasing mix of very practical information and more theoretical discussion. Classic DAM vendor “overstatements” Theresa Regli, who ... http://www.vocabcontrol.com/?p=214 The "semantic web" is an expression that has been used for long enough now that I for one feel I ought to know what it means, but it is hard to know where to start when so much about it is presented in “techspeak”. I am trying to understand ... http://www.vocabcontrol.com/?p=213 First we had content, then not long after that we had metadata, although no-one called it that. Now we need parametadata – the metadata about metadata! Neither metadata nor parametadata are anything new, but what is new is how central they have become to all sorts of business processes. People ... http://www.vocabcontrol.com/?p=212 There have been lots of interesting presentations at Web Science 2010 in Raleigh. My metadata meerkats were popular - hard to beat charismatic megafauna. The papers and posters are online at The Journal of Web Science. http://www.vocabcontrol.com/?p=211 What is an ontology? Ontologies are emerging from the techie background into the knowledge organisation foreground and - as usually happens - being touted as the new panacea to solve all problems from content management to curing headaches. As with any tool, there are circumstances where they work brilliantly and ... http://www.vocabcontrol.com/?p=210 This post is based on the notes I made for the talk I gave at the LIKE dinner on February 25th. It covers a lot of themes I have discussed elsewhere on this blog, but I hope it will be useful as an overview. Taxonomies have been around for ages Pretty much ... http://www.vocabcontrol.com/?p=209 When trying to integrate diverse vocabularies and repositories, the way to go is mapping – metadata crosswalks as they are known in the US. I’ve been looking for software that can handle mappings between taxonomies, of which there are a range on the market, but what is really exciting is ... http://www.vocabcontrol.com/?p=208 A fine example of how much inspiration you can get from randomly talking to the people who are actually engaging with customers was given to me by our Research Guide last week. She wants a video-tagging tool that includes chat functionality, some kind of interactive "pointing" facility, and plenty of ... http://www.vocabcontrol.com/?p=207 I heard Umberto Eco lecture on the search for a perfect language about 20 years ago and still find myself referencing him (trying to create a taxonomy that suits everyone would seem to be a similar quest). The lectures were nothing to do with my course really, so I ... http://www.vocabcontrol.com/?p=203