The Accidental Taxonomist

In a recent conversation based on a LinkedIn post, someone asked “Why choose a taxonomy over an ontology?” This is a good question, since th...

There are different types of controlled vocabularies for information and knowledge management. Usually, we think of the various kinds of con...

Taxonomies or sets of controlled vocabularies are typically implemented as values for  various metadata elements (also called metadata prope...

This week I attended the second annual conference “ SemanticData: Taxonomy, Ontology, and Knowledge Graphs ,” hosted by Henry Stewart (HS) E...

A number of years ago I worked on a project of cleaning up a large taxonomy on occupations and job titles. My client contact was sometimes c...