tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.comments2024-01-18T08:30:36.838-05:00The Accidental TaxonomistHeather Heddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16424216206886861070noreply@blogger.comBlogger187125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-31374638361502730882023-08-25T21:37:22.348-04:002023-08-25T21:37:22.348-04:00The replay of the August 17, 2023, webinar “Knowle...The replay of the August 17, 2023, webinar “Knowledge Graphs for Information Professionals” is available on demand: https://www.poolparty.biz/events/webinar_knowledge_graphs_for_information_professionals/<br />And the slides can also be downloaded: https://www.poolparty.biz/resources/slides-introduction-to-knowledge-graphs-for-information-professionals/Heather Heddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424216206886861070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-35488641724144098002023-08-12T08:31:09.324-04:002023-08-12T08:31:09.324-04:00You might be interested in this article on ChatGPT...You might be interested in this article on ChatGPT that my son sent me. It is mind blowing! He said “the first 1/3 of the article gives enough understanding to demystify while staying high enough level that someone without a computer science degree might understand it.”<br /><br />https://www.understandingai.org/p/large-language-models-explained-with Mary Petersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-91412627887433264482023-08-08T15:52:30.882-04:002023-08-08T15:52:30.882-04:00I’m signed up and looking forward to the presentat...I’m signed up and looking forward to the presentation on the 17th. Also looking forward to seeing you at Taxo Bootcamp in November! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-68900827516923132902023-03-02T15:47:03.524-05:002023-03-02T15:47:03.524-05:00Thanks for your feedback, it's clearer now. In...Thanks for your feedback, it's clearer now. Indeed in SEO, the keyword is still very present in the speeches but personally I tend to understand and use the concepts and entities much more. Benjamin Barnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-51576713099137054172023-02-20T16:50:36.750-05:002023-02-20T16:50:36.750-05:00Benjamin, as I understand it, SEO deals with keywo...Benjamin, as I understand it, SEO deals with keywords (among other things), but keywords are not necessarily restricted to a controlled vocabulary list, as a taxonomy is.<br />Entities can be associated with other entities. We tend not to call them entities in a taxonomy but rather "concepts", but ontologies have what are called entities, of which there are two types: classes and individuals/instances.Heather Heddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424216206886861070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-9891081170296367542023-02-20T16:49:49.203-05:002023-02-20T16:49:49.203-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Heather Heddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424216206886861070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-69363912619933173592023-02-20T16:28:55.780-05:002023-02-20T16:28:55.780-05:00I have been doing SEO for 12 years now and I admit...I have been doing SEO for 12 years now and I admit that the concepts of taxonomies and ontologies (although many websites today display their content using taxonomies) are still new to me. I can't say if your article is missing any information, but it is certainly helping me to understand the basic principles.<br /><br />Am I wrong if I tell that entities can be associated with entities ? Benjamin Barhttps://benjaminbar.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-21753437326315007692023-02-10T19:16:22.252-05:002023-02-10T19:16:22.252-05:00Loved George's Comment,but i Felt, Not really ...Loved George's Comment,but i Felt, Not really suggesting to replace job titles rather bringing clarity to this discipline.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-15845212966848720702023-02-08T14:07:57.724-05:002023-02-08T14:07:57.724-05:00That's good to hear.
Well, I am generally foc...That's good to hear. <br />Well, I am generally focused on concepts not processes, although the name of a process can also be a concept. Heather Heddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424216206886861070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-81026915674989112642023-02-08T14:06:53.095-05:002023-02-08T14:06:53.095-05:00Since this is just a blog post, I chose not to go ...Since this is just a blog post, I chose not to go into such details, which are more common for a white paper or journal article. But perhaps I will expand it for such publication in the future, and I will consider your suggestion.Heather Heddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424216206886861070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-61686394598208244692023-02-05T16:17:44.014-05:002023-02-05T16:17:44.014-05:00In writing my field guide, I write about the relat...In writing my field guide, I write about the relationships between networks and hierarchies and I've dealt with calling what in the future will be either a taxonomy or an ontology of system processes -- the patterns and processes that make up all systems. Now I have a reference and basis for reasoning and discussion when issues come up. Thanks! Lynn Rasmussenhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/lynn-rasmussen-9b2504197/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-81446068827342381262023-02-04T18:59:46.898-05:002023-02-04T18:59:46.898-05:00I enjoyed your article and may I suggest if you co...I enjoyed your article and may I suggest if you could please elucidate with examples under each explanation. Nonetheless, a good learning! manish mankadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04221394271152534457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-58084263358800709302023-02-01T19:43:13.557-05:002023-02-01T19:43:13.557-05:00That is correct, a non-hierarchal taxonomy is the ...That is correct, a non-hierarchal taxonomy is the same as or synonymous to Related Terms.Heather Heddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424216206886861070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-78361045830946377042023-02-01T19:42:31.690-05:002023-02-01T19:42:31.690-05:00Hello Max,
Facets do not have horizontal relations...Hello Max,<br />Facets do not have horizontal relationships across them, however. Facets are distinct, mutually exclusive sets of terms that tend to be used in some combination in tagging and in search refinement/filtering. You could even have a hierarchy within a facet. Facets do not group horizontal relationships.<br />"Horizontal" or nonhierarchical (associative) relationships can exist *within* a hierarchy or facet. Associative relationships also exist in thesauri. The existence of associative relationships does not define an ontology. <br />If you would like to know more about the differences between a taxonomy and an ontology, I just posted a new blog post on that subject. https://accidental-taxonomist.blogspot.com/2023/01/taxonomies-vs-ontologies.html<br />Heather Heddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424216206886861070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-32807428286793258382023-02-01T19:40:45.897-05:002023-02-01T19:40:45.897-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Heather Heddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424216206886861070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-6481360869708288372023-02-01T10:39:24.718-05:002023-02-01T10:39:24.718-05:00Your description of "facets" in a taxono...Your description of "facets" in a taxonomy seem to amount to an ontology - the horizontal relationship between objects in a taxonomy vs the standard "is a"/parent-child vertical relationship in a taxonomy. Taxonomical hierarchy is more than just structure: it also implies inheritance whereas the ontology (facets ?) does not. The facets concept seems to want to "group" horizontal relationships ... is that the point? Max Villamarinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-90093719595373815172023-01-12T13:07:15.106-05:002023-01-12T13:07:15.106-05:00True there are problems with word "taxonomy,&...True there are problems with word "taxonomy," lacking an agreed upon definition and used inconsistently. But we are stuck with it. There are many people with "taxonomist" or "taxonomy" in their job title making a living from this work, and providing useful services, so we need to respect that.Heather Heddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424216206886861070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-33561701761507684642023-01-12T10:46:23.027-05:002023-01-12T10:46:23.027-05:00Thanks for posting. It really inspired me to write...Thanks for posting. It really inspired me to write down a few things that I had been thinking about. It's taken me a while to put my finger on exactly what it was that set me spinning.<br /><br />Here's my take: I just don't like the word "taxonomy" (other than as the name for the practice of arrangement). A "taxonomy" -- as a thing -- is just really hard to pin down. For some reason, Wayne Booth's memorable expression "simply the flinging of Greek-fed, polysyllabic bullshit" comes to mind. I can almost feel one of my grad school mentors standing over my shoulder, talking about Wittgenstein's language-games and Kuhn's guidance on the normalization of science (and practice). Ultimately, I'm just not sure what the word actually does for us. I don't think Cutter or Melvil Dewey talked about taxonomies. Nor did Julius Kaiser or S.R. Ranganathan. The word has just kind of appeared as a synonym for the cumbersome "knowledge organization system," throwing the unlikely bedfellows of gazetteers, subject headings, and semantic networks into the same semantic sleeping bag...<br /><br />[I go on at length on the topic at: https://kwocurriculum.blogspot.com/2023/01/deflating-taxonomies-do-we-really-need.html]George Goodallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09981025476720968100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-52884913568636957462023-01-07T21:01:47.979-05:002023-01-07T21:01:47.979-05:00Physical items, such as books, can be cataloged in...Physical items, such as books, can be cataloged in only one place, and categories in a classification scheme occur in only one location.<br />By contrast, concepts in a digital taxonomy can occur in more than one hierarchy, and content can be tagged with multiple concepts. Heather Heddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424216206886861070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-71315526547026679782023-01-07T16:48:56.577-05:002023-01-07T16:48:56.577-05:00These are tricky concepts to untangle, thank you f...These are tricky concepts to untangle, thank you for your efforts. <br />This may be off topic, but you have me thinking anew how the goal of hierarchical classification schemes (assign an item only one classification code) can operate across a collection, but also operate within specific taxonomy entries. For example, one goal of information retrieval for your invoices might be to ensure you can answer questions like this: "did business in Maryland in December rebound from the November numbers?" The hierarchical structure of dates (years contain months contain days) keeps the December invoices separate from the November invoices and also ensures counts by month will sum to the count by year. Of course my controlled vocabulary might distinguish between the "order date”, “shipping date” and "delivery date" - and I better make sure I know my audience. [One can also see this nesting of a classification system into a taxonomy with locations (country contains states/regions contains postal codes) where it might be the "billing address" or the "delivery address”.] Perhaps date and location are special cases of universally applicable hierarchical classification schemes, as opposed to custom schemes for specific domains.<br />I can’t help but think, however, that it's almost as if in the digital world you have an army of librarians who can reorganize the stacks instantly - and with each iteration each item is cataloged in a way that it has one place it should be. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-18360459195107064582023-01-03T08:20:19.668-05:002023-01-03T08:20:19.668-05:00Correct, knowledge organization need not be for in...Correct, knowledge organization need not be for information retrieval. That's why I qualified the "information-retrieval taxonomy" as a kind of taxonomy. This is by far the most common kind of taxonomy, though.Heather Heddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424216206886861070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-84649981058070539652023-01-02T21:04:16.014-05:002023-01-02T21:04:16.014-05:00This last sentence intrigues me. Knowledge organiz...This last sentence intrigues me. Knowledge organization need not be for retrieval; sometimes taxonomies are created to facilitate communication across an organization. It is possible, even likely, that this agreed-upon set of terminology will at some point be reflected in the naming of databases, schemas, tables and columns. At that point, yes, it’s for retrieval. However, capturing the “language” of an organization into agreed-upon terms, definitions and relations has its own value. <br /> I would like to know of others who are in this fascinating application of taxonomies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-82510786014496186212022-10-09T15:21:32.075-04:002022-10-09T15:21:32.075-04:00Yes, Taxonomy Warehouse has been discontinued. I l...Yes, Taxonomy Warehouse has been discontinued. I list three other sources for taxonomies for license in the 3rd edition of my book, which are listed in Chapter 1 the websites for the book: http://www.hedden-information.com/accidental-taxonomist/websites/Heather Heddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424216206886861070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-42225042422666398112022-10-09T14:29:39.539-04:002022-10-09T14:29:39.539-04:00Hi, the taxonomy warehouse seems to be down, any c...Hi, the taxonomy warehouse seems to be down, any chances to get a updated list of websites like that? Thanks in advance!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9094731596169096992.post-37370156949308136662022-03-31T05:04:53.243-04:002022-03-31T05:04:53.243-04:00Nice.Nice.Josh Freemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03785577907570295439noreply@blogger.com