The perils of popularity

The perils of popularity

I am giving a talk tomorrow at Yahoo Research Labs titled “The perils of popularity“. There has been a lot of excitement about how web-based social systems harness the wisdom of crowds. I want to challenge that notion. I also want to challenge some of Chris Anderson’s assertions about the long tail. [...]

Concept Browsing

Conzilla2 - our second generation concept browser - is a knowledge management tool with many purposes. Among other things, it aims to be

an efficient collaborative knowledge environment / modeling tool.
a versatile interface for editing and styling RDF.

Conzilla presents knowledge in terms of specific maps, Context-maps. A Context-map displays nodes and arcs, from now on referred [...]

Meet me later to exchange some metadata ….

Love Your Local Data Warehouse Manager
by Tony Byrne
17-Apr-2008

For a while there, it seemed like everyone was talking about information “convergence” — the idea that the data and content worlds were coming together, perhaps over a shared interest in search, text mining, records management, whatever. Examples of [...]

#Hashtag taxonomy @twitter gets interesting

Twitter hashtags for emergency coordination and disaster relief
I know I’ve been beating the drum about hashtags for a while. People are either lukewarm to them or are annoyed and hate them. I get it. I do. But for some stupid reason I just can’t leave them alone.
Anyway, today I think I saw a glimmer of [...]

Knowledge has become social (surprise !)

Snip from Macro Principles
Even if it may seem obvious, this is a pretty deep MP. I was reminded of by this presentation of David Weinberger. What made me notice and reflect was two pieces.
First, his mailing-list. You subscribe to lots of mailing-lists. On each, there’s at least one true expert, even the leading one, who [...]

The Great Taxonomy Debate

A Breakthrough In Taxonomy?

Sorry, I haven’t posted in a while.  Not only have I been busy on other stuff, there hasn’t been that much new and exciting to report on our internal initiatives.
User count continues to grow, new communites spring up, new sources of business value are identified and celebrated — it’s all good, there’s [...]

Semantikos: Structured Information

Reuters Wants The World To Be Tagged
Written by Alex Iskold /

As Richard MacManus recently predicted, in 2008 we’ll witness the rise of semantic web services. From the native support for Microformats in Firefox 3, to the New York Times’ utilization of rich headers metadata, to this week’s release of the Social Graph API by Google, [...]

Semantic Revolution

 La taxonomie est morte! Vive la taxonomie…
Submitted by: Theresa Regli, Analyst at CMS Watch
12-Mar-2008Conference events and tracks are getting nichey-er and more specific, and rightly so, as every year the knowledge we accumulate about content technology gets deeper and more nuanced, which begs more specific presentations and probing [...]

Information architecture and taxonomy courses

TFPL, knowledge and information management services:
TFPL Training - Course Subjects:
Information architecture and taxonomy – structures, standards and tools for effective navigation and retrieval.
Information architecture and taxonomy training courses     Information architecture & taxonomy course brochure 2008
Level 1 (Foundation)
For delegates with little or no experience in the subject.
Course title
Information architecture foundation programme: bringing order to information [...]

Precise information access - enabled by intelligent control

Wordmap’s software brings a new level of precision to information access and control. Using Wordmap’s enterprise products, organisations develop classification schemes or taxonomies, upload and store documents by reference to them, then publish rich information resources for their users to search and navigate.
In short, Wordmap can transform information that is complex, chaotic and hard to [...]