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How Pinterest uses its Taxonomy

Pinterest recently rolled out a new tool, Pinterest Trends. This tool offers insights into how content performs on the platform, the emerging trends, and consumer behavior. Pinterest gathers these insights from over 200 billion ideas saved by 320 million-plus people to over 4 billion boards with the help of a taxonomy-based knowledge management system. At […]

Taxonomy of Mindfulness Skills

Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) have dramatically increased in recent years. However, the lack of research and a sound taxonomy is limiting the dissemination of information and the development of targeted MBIs. MBIs are increasingly prevalent in medicine. Surprisingly, there has been no concomitant increase in research on how to use MBIs for specific medical conditions. Also, […]

Developing a Taxonomy of Legal Technology in the Access to Justice Field

Recently a small group wrestled with the idea of how to divide the categories of the tools and the various disciplines within legal technology. The challenge arose from a consensus that there is a need to facilitate understanding and encourage innovation by developing a taxonomy of legal technology in the access to justice field. Considering […]

A Case for Establishing a Common Taxonomy for Hardware Security

The attacks on modern computer systems have become more pervasive and sophisticated. These attacks often progress past the software layer and compromise hardware. As a response, the industry has been working to deliver micro-architectural improvements and implementing hardware-based security, which is widely recognized as a best practice. However, hardware-based security has its own set of […]

Why a Knowledge Scaffolding is required to Enhance Digital Experiences

When enterprise document and content management systems emerged, the content these systems helped organize was expected to help in improving and automating processes. Similarly, technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Chatbots were projected to drive digital transformation by utilizing enterprise data. On the contrary, what is happening today is that these […]

Leveraging Lumps and Splits for Building Business Taxonomies

Taxonomies are essential for businesses as they provide the classification of information that algorithms need to drive automated decisions and the basis for making the decisions explainable and repeatable. Consequently, taxonomists need to ensure that taxonomy has a reasoned basis and justification to be durable. A way to make business taxonomies durable is to borrow […]

Meaning-First Data Modeling-A Return To Simplicity

The structure-first or the relational data model has always been used for capturing meaning from databases. It was a great, approach to managing data during the initial days of data management. However, it is time to embrace simplicity—the simplicity of using the meaning-first data modeling approach. Humans have been constantly engaged in semantic generation and […]

Building Taxonomies for Intranet and Enterprise Content Management Systems

There are many approaches to designing a taxonomy for tagging and retrieving content in intranets or in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems. The approach, however, revolves around a fundamental question, whether a single taxonomy would suffice or if there is a need for multiple taxonomies. While deciding on an approach, a taxonomist needs to address […]

Gauging the Interest in Taxonomy Licensing

Taxonomies or controlled vocabularies developed by various organizations, companies, and even individuals are available for licensing. However, there are many uncertainties surrounding these taxonomies. For instance, are they relevant, do the licensing agreement allow modifications, and is it worthwhile for the creators of the taxonomies to promote them? Generally, a customized taxonomy is best, but […]

Amazon Comprehend Medical Adds Ontology Linking Capability

An ontology provides a declarative model of a domain that defines and represents the concepts existing in that domain, their attributes, and the relationships between them. It is typically represented as a knowledge base and made available to applications that need to use or share knowledge. Within health informatics, an ontology is a formal description […]