Taxonomy Folksonomy Cookbook

Free Taxonomy & Folksonomy Book Posted by Oliver Marks in ZDnet (July 23)

Points us to a great new book by Daniela Barbosa of Synaptica at Dow Jones Client Solutions, ‘The Taxonomy Folksonomy Cookbook: Finding the right recipe for organizing enterprise metadata‘. She samples "the different flavors of how enterprises can incorporate social tagging into their taxonomies".

The objective is to get the best of the discipline of the prepared taxonomy and the involvement of social taggers in building knowledge and enhancing findability.

"Fortunately, the taxonomy versus folksonomy issue is not an “either/or” debate, but an opportunity for mutual progress. By combining the virtues of each approach into a working hybrid model, the enterprise can achieve its goal: a user-friendly system that encourages collaboration and makes information easier to find."

Has many "recipes".

The e-book is online and free with registration.

Vivisimo Velocity Discovery Module

Vivísimo Launches New Velocity Discovery Module - Newsbreaks (May 22)

"Vivísimo (www.vivisimo.com), a provider of enterprise search software and expertise, launched the Velocity Discovery Module, an addition to the Vivísimo Velocity Search Platform that expands the ability of organizations to quickly and automatically classify all data by topics and themes. The new module also adds improved collaboration tools that speed the process of accessing, reviewing, and sharing search results."

Twine - tagging with an "intelligent personal Web assistant

Here is a new web-based application that everyman can employ to automatically extract names of people, places, companies and other entities from email and documents. It's called Twine, and the New York Times gave it a glowing review.

An Online Organizer That Helps Connect the Dots by Anne Eisenberg, New York Times (Feb 3)

"Customers have individual accounts on Twine’s Web site, where they save URLs or other information. They can make their collections, or “twines,” private, share them in groups with other members having common interests like politics or fashion, or even make the twines public."

Twine automatically tags according to its recognition of entities and can assign a subject from what it can infer the paper is about. Users can also add their own descriptive tags. People participating in the current test have been pleased with the results.

Twine is accepting registrants for the Beta test to begin in the next couple of months.

From the Twine site: "... in a nutshell Twine uses the Semantic Web, natural language processing, and machine learning to make your information and relationships smarter. But if that’s all Greek to you, just think of Twine as your very own intelligent personal Web assistant, working for you behind the scenes so you can be more productive."

This has tremendous potential as a social tool for groups of all kinds - any set of people who would benefit from sharing documents - as well as a personal productivity tool for individuals.

Tagging made easier

User tagging of company documents and Web materials may just have got easier with TagEasy from TagSearch Technologies. Social search tools are gradually being adopted by companies.

Tagsearch Technologies Launches Tagging and Web Collaboration Platform, EContent (Apr 24)