Generative AI and large language models (LLMs), the technology behind ChatGPT, have been topics of presentations, keynotes, and attendees’ conversations at all the varied conferences I had the fortune to attend this year, including the Taxonomy Boot Camp conference held November 6-7, in Washington, DC. Taxonomy Boot Camp is the…
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Taxonomies for Learning and Training Content
Corporate instructional or training content can be better managed and found when tagged with a taxonomy, especially a faceted taxonomy.
SEMANTiCS 2023 Conference
The SEMANTiCs conference in Leipzig September 2023 discussed knowledge graphs, ontologies, taxonomies, NLP, and LLMs.
Taxonomies for Digital Asset Management (DAM)
Taxonomies enable better search, discovery, and findability of digital assets and should be included in a DAM system.
Knowledge Graphs and Taxonomies
There is growing interest in and uses of knowledge graphs, which make use of taxonomies.
Taxonomies for Technical Documentation
Taxonomies are primarily for tagging content for what is about so that precise content can easily be found by users, who browse or search on the taxonomy terms. The types of content tagged and implementations of taxonomies are numerous. One growing area of taxonomy use is technical documentation. Technical documentation…
Taxonomies and ChatGPT
Although we may think of generative AI for providing answers to questions, it can do a lot more, including tasks related to taxonomies.
Taxonomies for Content Components
The primary purpose of taxonomies is to support consistent topical tagging (indexing) of content and full and accurate content retrieval based on the tagged taxonomy concepts that the end-user selects. The unit of content that is tagged makes a difference in the retrieval results and user experience. Users want to…
Taxonomy and Information Architecture Compared
There is considerable overlap between the fields of information taxonomies and information architecture. Both involve information organization, labeling, search, and findability. In some organizations the job roles and titles are combined. I previously blogged on “Information Architecture and Taxonomies,” observing that “information architecture” in name seemed to be declining while…
Related Concepts in Taxonomies
Taxonomies and thesauri are characterized by having hierarchical relationships linking their terms. The associative relationship (related concepts, Related Term, or RT), on the other hand, is a fundamental feature of thesauri, but it is merely an optional feature of taxonomies. An over-simplistic distinction between taxonomies and thesauri is the presence…