BBC programmes ontology
Only just realised our programme model is publicly available: BBC programmes ontology We now have a top-level directory of /ontologies/. I’m not quite sure what I think of that. The metadata-geek in me...
View Articlewhere to start with taxonomies and CVs
Michelle asked for resources when starting out with taxonomies and I’d coincidently been compiling some stuff for other nefarious purposes, after have to search for the same old set of stuff for the...
View Articleautomatic classification resources
Following on from the controlled vocabulary resources, I dug out what I have on automatic classification. Strangely most of the information available on automatic indexing/classification/tagging is...
View Articlemetadata fundamentals article
James Robertson of Step Two has published Metadata fundamentals for intranets and websites The article is a great intro and neatly captures several of my metadata hobby horses. Capture what you need:...
View Articleimage findability article in FUMSI
Really good stuff in this month’s FUMSI article by Ian Davis: “Image indexing gets especially tricky, and really parts company from the world of document indexing, with the ‘aboutness’ access to...
View Articlemetadata driven websites, via CMS Watch
There’s a post on the CMS Watch Blog about the challenges of achieving a metadata-driven publishing model: “The content needs metadata for this to work. Many will tell you that “people won’t tag.” No,...
View Articleways of adding metadata
I was digging around in my files this weekend and found this table I made once of different approaches to applying metadata to content. At first glance the volunteers example looks like it is only...
View Articlereasons to define a SharePoint content type
As a general principle it is best not to go overboard on defining SharePoint content types. They add power to information retrieval but also add content creation overheads. Keep the number of types...
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