ZigTag Finally Launches Semantic Bookmarking

So, I seem to have not been on the right RSS feed, because I totally missed the memo that ZigTag finally launched at the end of 2008.  I had signed up for the restricted Beta some time ago (there were 500 or so participants), and was awaiting the live version anxiously. ZigTag is a tagging/bookmarking [...]

Electronic Medical Records: New Turf for Taxonomists?

Electronic Medical Records (EMR) have been receiving a good deal of attention of late. And it is no wonder. Amongst the challenges present in healthcare, both in the U.S.A. and globally, the fact that medical records largely consist of paper files certainly gives us pause. But what, exactly, are the goals of the much talked [...]

Relating Different Lists of Terms

There are three different types of relationships in taxonomies: 
Equivalent (Synonyms: “International Business Machines = IBM”)
Hierarchical (Parent/Child : “Computer Manufacturers => IBM”)
Associative (Concept/Concept: “Software Group – Software”)
Heather Hedden’s presentation on taxonomy powered discovery for a recent Boston KM Forum contained an interesting set of examples for how to organize the last type of conceptually related term [...]