Despite(or perhaps because of) being the world’s biggest online bookstore, Amazon is a nightmare to use when searching for well-known books. The problem of finding a book on Amazon that exists in several versions has been very succinctly stated by …
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You might think that there need be no war over creating a taxonomy. When should you use a hierarchical classification, and when a set of facets? You might think it hardly worth bothering over. Yet some thesaurus experts fight to defend …
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A recent ISKO meeting (“Taming the News Beast”, 1 April, London) presented the current state of the art for text analytics relating to news publishing. Although the presentations were excellent, and the organisations represented were leading edge, I found the day …
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Content modelling is on everyone’s lips these days, yet it’s a term that seems not to have existed just a few years ago. Is it some entirely new concept? As usual, a quick look on the Web reveals several definitions, some …
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A recent book by Matthew Jockers, Macroanalysis, outlines an approach to digital humanities based on what is usually referred to as text mining. I can’t help feeling that the “macroanalysis” approach, which is very similar to that of Franco Moretti’s “distant …
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Lambe, P., 2007. Organising knowledge: taxonomies, knowledge and organisational effectiveness, Oxford, UK: Chandos.
Patrick Lambe has established a reputation for his work on taxonomies in the last few years; this summer (July 2013) he gave the keynote address to the ISKO …
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Hedden, H., 2010. The accidental taxonomist, Medford, N.J.: Information Today.
Heather Hedden has written an excellent introductory manual for anyone involved in setting up, running or expanding a taxonomy or thesaurus. Unlike many books on the subject, this is one for …
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