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...

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...

A and B are related; C and D are related. Taxonomies and thesauri are characterized by having hierarchical relationships linking their terms...

I recently posted about SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) . If you have read anything about SKOS, then you might have come across ...

Over the 26 years that I have been involved in controlled vocabularies, thesauri, and taxonomies, the biggest change I have seen in the fiel...

I have long felt that there is some uncertainty as to where named entities (names of specific people, places, organizations, products, etc...