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A New Classification Methodology Proposed to Regulate China’s Overseas Investments

A government-backed coalition of international advisors to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has recommended that China apply more stringent environmental controls over its outbound investments. If adopted, this would be a significant departure from China’s usual approach of deferring to host countries often inadequate rules for regulating its overseas investments. Chinese companies and financial […]

Using Knowledge Graphs to Bridge Oil & Gas Data Silos and Improve Decision Making

The data ecosystem in the oil and gas sector is complex. It presents challenges to finding and consuming appropriate and accurate data using traditional methods. This, in turn, makes it hard to generate insights essential to transforming business and operations. Traditional methods of using relational databases have worked well so far for Oil & Gas […]

Australian Sustainable Finance Taxonomy on the Anvil

The Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative (ASFI) has released its final roadmap, outlining 37 recommendations, including developing an Australian taxonomy for sustainable finance. The benefits of having a common taxonomy include standardizing consistent language that could facilitate further development across sectors. The challenge in developing a taxonomy is to cover the entire financial services sector, covering […]

Introducing Landvoc – The Linked Land Governance Thesaurus

As a part of the GODAN Action-consortium, the Land Portal Foundation did a scoping study of land information providers online and how they classified or tagged their information. The main conclusions derived from the scoping study is that there is no structured or uniform approach practiced by the land governance community to publish information. The […]

How the Kill Chain Taxonomy Helps Improve Cybersecurity?

The Kill Chain Taxonomy is a group of cybersecurity tactics for detecting, fighting, and preventing cyberattacks such as ransomware, security breaches, and Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). The term Kill Chain Taxonomy is based on the idea that attacks occur in phases, which can be turned down through a series of controls established at each phase. […]

The Importance of a Tagging Taxonomy

A tagging taxonomy is one of the most critical components of research and will make or break an organization’s ability to gain meaningful insights from users and customers. Done wrong, it might pull the rug from beneath researchers and hurt the trust their organization has put in them to provide accurate and reliable insights. The […]

Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Search

The promise of responding to customer requirements faster, avoiding rework, and finding experts has placed information infrastructure at the top of public and private sectors’ goals. While leadership wants to simplify information discovery and encourage knowledge sharing between workers, most employees cannot unlock both intrinsic and extrinsic knowledge. Consequently, enterprises are plunking down money on […]

Why The Difference Between Classification & Taxonomy Matters?

There are many terms, such as classification and taxonomy, that get thrown around interchangeably. Unfortunately, not many people clearly understand what these terms mean. Covering the key differences is critical in data management because it ultimately matters for data governance and enabling effective product information management (PIM). In data management, classification and taxonomy are methods […]

Enhancing Enterprise Search with Taxonomy and Folksonomy

Identifying enterprise keywords that correctly represent a business’s content is part of creating an organizational taxonomy. This taxonomy would be a step in remedying enterprise search issues. It could also support content management systems, processes, workflows, and business intelligence platforms and ensures information workers can access the right information at the right time to do […]

Sustainable Finance Taxonomies: Need for a Transition Taxonomy

Along with the need to infuse capital into sustainable finance, it is becoming increasingly important for companies and financial stakeholders to clearly define sustainable projects and activities. However, there remains a lack of consistency, transparency, and rigor in the defining criteria and measurement. This lack of clear definitions for sustainable projects and activities is ultimately […]