Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Negative for taxonomies

Enterprise Search: Leveraging and Learning From Web Search and Content Tools Lynda Moulton, Gilbane Enterprise Search Practice(Dec 14 2007)

Lynda Moulton asked panelists at the Gilbane Boston 2007 Conference, "Will Web and Internet Search Technologies Drive the Enterprise (Internal) Search Tool Offerings or Will the Markets Diverge?" She noted their comments in this blog entry.

Of interest: "Among the other noteworthy comments in this session was a negative about taxonomies. The gist of it was that they require so much discipline that they might work for a while but can’t really be sustained. If this attitude becomes the norm, many of the semantic search engines which depend on some type of classification and categorization according to industry terminologies or locally maintained lists will be challenged to deliver enhanced search results. ..."

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