Interesting post, and interesting blog. Taxonomy is the new hip, says Miller Montague. Yes - we are seeing new books, and more attention in conferences - even a division in SLA. Commenter raised a question about taxonomy being not strong enough to support semantic technology - and that an ontology was required. This may be semantics - though there is the view that the taxonomy is specific to an organization or subject area, and the ontology is for global use.
However, the reply was astute - "Ontologies and Taxonomies aim to bring order to chaos and customizing a company’s own information around their unique language and their cultural needs is why the two are useful."
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Gwen,
Thanks for the review of our post.
You are right in that semantics is a key term in discussions about Ontology and Taxonomies.
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