What A Cute Bunny: Taxonomy as Liberator

I spent this past week testing a taxonomy as part of a digital asset management project we are currently working on. One of the test scenarios involved giving art taggers a series of images and asking them to code them using the taxonomy we had developed.
Taggers see taxonomy as a blessing and a curse. On [...]

OASIS Approves UIMA – the first standard for accessing Unstructured Information

Early last month, OASIS announced the approval of the Unstructured Information Management Architecture Version 1.0. This standard creates an open method for accessing unstructured information – that is, any information that is created by and for people, and is not inherently machine-readable (e.g., not data).