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Synaptica Insights features Narendra Venkatramani of Scope e-Knowledge Center

Synaptica Insights is a regular series that showcases stories; news; learning from customers and partners of Synaptica; and insights from colleagues and influencers. In the latest edition, Narendra Venkatramani (Venky), Senior Vice-President, Sales and Marketing of Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), discusses his career; his role in Scope as a member of the core executive team; […]

The factors involved in creating Subject facets

Heather Hedden, senior vocabulary editor at Gale/Cengage Learning, in a recent blog post in The Accidental Taxonomist, notes that faceted taxonomies are becoming common. She adds that when designing facets, some of the facets and their terms for a content collection may be obvious. However, the task of creating a Subject facet, for tagging topics […]

A Semantic Approach for finding experts in the Academia

Paolo Cifariello, Paolo Ferragina and Marco Ponza from the University of Pisa, are presenting a new semantic search engine for expert finding in the academia called WISER. In their paper titled, WISER: A Semantic Approach for Expert Finding in Academia based on Entity Linking a system, the authors note that their system is unsupervised and […]

Should you optimize your knowledge base for search or for browsing?

When it comes to maximizing findability of knowledge and information, it is assumed that users are likely to find it through search. Is this assumption true, asks Nick Milton, director for Knoco. Like so many things related to knowledge management (KM), Nick concludes that, it is not “either or” but “both-and”. Why should we optimize […]

European Copyright Overhaul: the time to guide text and data mining provisions is now

The European digital single market copyright negotiations are reaching the final stage. The shape of the text and data mining provisions, which are a part of this legislative agenda, is beginning to emerge. According to Jeremy Malcol, senior global policy analyst with the Electronic Frontier Foundation international team, the next few weeks will provide Europeans […]

An alternative to the traditional approach to KM

Many alternatives are available for those reluctant or not having the resources to follow the traditional approach to knowledge management (KM)—setting it up as a separate, vertical function within the organization writes Sara Teitelman. The goal of any KM program should be to create a healthy digital workplace. It will facilitate the free flow of […]

When are graph databases the right fit for MDM

Despite the growing number of use cases, William McKnight, who leads the McKnight Consulting Group, says graph databases are not ready to replace relational database MDM platforms. William offers three practical examples of when to supplement master data management (MDM) practice with a graph database. In theory, leveraging graph databases for master data management (MDM) […]

Integrate taxonomy and search for a powerful and improved user experience

Patrick Lambe—two-term president of the Information and Knowledge Management Society and founder and principal consultant of Straits Knowledge—suggests in a recently published article, “Taxonomy and Search Patterns for Search and Discovery,” that if taxonomy and search are integrated, they become smarter and deliver an improved user experience. Taxonomy and search are limited in what they […]

Good quality taxonomy and metadata are essential for making enterprise search successful

Search is an essential part of the success of any digital workplace, and intranets are no exception. Agnes Molnar—managing consultant and CEO of Search Explained—pens her thoughts in CMS Wire’s article “Your Intranet Is Only as Good as Your Metadata”. She mentions that an organization needs two things in place—good quality taxonomy and metadata—for search […]

The Synaptica Insight series: a talk with Rolf Zwahlen of TE Connectivity

Synaptica recently interviewed Rolf Zwahlen, Engineering Systems Analyst at TE Connectivity, for the Synaptica Insights series. Rolf is a member of the Digital Part Solutions team and his focus is on information technology. In this interview, he discusses how the product data management team leverages Synaptica KMS (Synaptica) to support the marketing team. Rolf reveals […]