Clustify documents

Automatic categorization, EContent (Nov 6)

"Hot Neuron has released Version 2.0 of its Clustify document clustering software, which automatic document categorization and other tools to help corporations and law firms explore and organize large document sets."

Clustify will do auto-categorization

Automatic Categorization Added in Hot Neuron’s Clustify 2.0, Newsbreaks (Nov 6)

"Hot Neuron, LLC announced the release of version 2.0 of its Clustify document clustering software, which features automatic document categorization and other tools to help corporations and law firms explore and organize large document sets. Clustify groups related documents into clusters, allowing the user to explore the document set and efficiently and consistently categorize documents by categorizing entire clusters of documents with a single mouse click."

For more information on Clustify, visit www.cluster-text.com.

Creating a Taxonomy

Creating User-Centred Taxonomies: Part Two by James Kelway, FUMSI (Sept 2008)

In Part 2, James Kelway show how to create, test, and launch the taxonmomy.

IBM Benefits from Enterprise Tagging Service

Enterprise Tagging Service social software saves IBM $4.6 million a year by Mixed by Gregory Culpin (Knowledge Officer @ Whatever) in Enterprise 2.0

Interesting posting at a blog for Enterprise Social Search - IBM set up an Enterprise Tagging Search service and have reported excellent results

"What they found was amazing when you look at it in context: the average person saved 12 seconds, across the 286000+ searches performed through ETS each week. This sums up to 955 hours saved each week across the company. In terms of cost savings, it amounts to a rough estimate of $4.6 million a year, in terms of productivity gain."

Basics of Faceted Search

The Future of Search? Faceted Search by Daniel Tunkelang, Chief Scientist at Endeca, Altsearchengines (Oct )

Endeca is known for the faceted search it offers. In this article, its chief scientist, Daniel Tunkeland, provides a brief description, some images, and some history.

Mainly -- "As a practical matter, the facets for a collection are typically derived either from pre-existing fields in a database (e.g., the columns in a relational database or data warehouse) or by applying information extraction techniques to unstructured content, (e.g., detecting names of people and places in free text)."

Faceted approach is most often seen at retail web sites since it is an excellent way to allow browse and search of products by brand, prices, and various attributes.

Federated Search

There is an excellent primer on Federated Search by Jill Hurst-Wahl in FUMSI (Oct 22, 2008). This is an excerpt from her report, the Federated Search Report and Toolkit. The excerpt provides a clear description of what federated search is ( -- single interface that has the ability to simultaneously search multiple data sources) and the questions that should be asked when considering whether your company would benefit from adopting this kind of software. Among the features to look for is -- Faceted or topically clusteredsearch results.

Taxonomy Starter

Creating User Centred Taxonomies: Part One by James Kelway, FUMSI (Aug 2008)

"This two-part article is a step-by-step guide for those wishing to create new taxonomies for their business unit, or client. It will outline the many different elements that make up a quality taxonomy and the pitfalls you should be aware of when starting a new project."

Creating User-Centred Taxonomies: Part Two (Sept 2008)

"In part two of this article, we look at creating, testing and launching the taxonomy."

Both are excellent summaries and are well illustrated.

Taxonomy Extension for Microsoft Sharepoint

SharePartXXL International GmbH provides "applications and solutions that add additional features to WSS and MOSS". Among these is the SharePartXXL Taxonomy Extension for Microsoft SharePoint.

From the e-mailing:

"The SharePartXXL Taxonomy Extension for Microsoft SharePoint enables documents and list items in a SharePoint-based portal to be organized cross-site as part of a connected content network and knowledge model. SharePoint items are associated by category using one or more custom taxonomies. So users can organize documents and other portal contents in the way that they think and work. With that extension
the SharePoint portal really can become a place to share knowledge as well as content:"

Details about the product are desribed on the Taxonomy Extension product page.

Forrester Research on Enterprise Tagging

Forrester Research has made a presentation from a teleconference on folksonomies in the enterprise available.

Folksonomy in the Enterprise: How to effectively leverage social tagging
(Feb 15, 2008)

Download from http://www.k-sync.com/document.cfm?iDocumentID=4029358

Agenda covers:

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1. Content is increasingly unregulated and unstructured. This is the problem that tagging addresses.
2. Content enrichment options - metadata, classification, automated classification, and social tagging.
3. How tagging aligns with taxonomy - shows taxonomy vs tagging - mentions some software systems, good diagram for "full enrichment cycle".
4. User case study - IBM Information Discovery Initiative - enterprise social tagging.
5. Recommendations - try tagging.

Taxonomy Directed Folksonomies

TAXONOMY DIRECTED FOLKSONOMIES -- Integrating user tagging and controlled vocabularies for Australian education networks -- by Sarah Hayman and Nick Lothian at education.au, 2007

This paper was presented at theWorld Library and Information Congress at the 2007 IFLA Conference.

It opens with the key question -- "What is the role of controlled vocabulary in a Web 2.0 world? Can we have the best of both worlds: balancing folksonomies and controlled vocabularies to help communities of users find and share information and resources most relevant to them?"

Paper includes a review of the growth and characteristics of user tagging and folksonomies on the Web. Throughout there is a discussion of the value that user tagging provides - along with some of the difficulties.

The aim is to examine if the folksonomy and formal taxonomy can be used together. The answer is Yes - and the authors have a proof of concept model that they are using at education.au.

"Is it possible to combine the two approaches and gain benefits from both? Some attempts have been made already and a few are mentioned here in a consideration of some future developments for social tagging. We then discuss our own model: the taxonomy-directed folksonomy for the myedna proof of concept."