The Myth of “Unified Information Systems”

I was just listening to a web cast of IDC’s called “Enterprise Search 360: A Company-Wide Case Study with National Instruments and IDC”. This was commercial for search vendor FAST Search and Transfer, but one of the best kinds of commercials - one by an enthusiastic customer. The web cast shoud be available here. Julie [...]

This month’s Taxonomy Community of Practice call: Social Tagging

Note (added August 2nd, 2006): you can purchase an archived recording of this call, visit our website.
We have an interesting topic and great speakers for this month’s Taxonomy Community of Practice conference call… Social Tagging & Folksonomies - July 26, 2:00PM EST.

Term Hijacking - My ontology is better than your ontology…

I thought I’d point out this summary of a series of posts from the Taxonomy Community of Practice summarized by one our our consultants, Stephanie Lemieux, on the Taxonomy Wiki. In case you missed it, here is an excerpt:
“An interesting offshoot of the traditional terminology debate (what is a taxonomy/thesaurus/ontology – insert term here) [...]

Syndicated research projects

One of the things we have noticed is that there are lots of interesting areas for companies to explore in terms of process and technology, but not a lot of resources that can be devoted to exploration without a cost justifiable outcome. So for example, someone might have a departmental budget of $10k or $20k [...]

Hype cycles revisited - taxonomies under the gun

My last post discussed the idea that knowledge management has gone through the hype cycle and people are abandoning the term for more fertile buzzwords. According to Gartner, taxonomies are now at the “Peak of Inflated Expectations” headed for the “Trough of Disillusionment” in the hype cycle, which begs reflection on the concept of taxonomies.