Meaning = Data + Structure: User Generated Structure

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Meaning = Data + Structure: User GeneratedStructure October 24, 2007 Posted by jeremyliew in Lightspeed Venture capital I’ve been thinking about how the explosion of user generated content that has characterized web 2.0 can be made more useful by the addition of structure, ie meaning = data + structure. The obvious way that structure can […]

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70 Percent More Terms Than Taxonomy

Folksonomy Provides 70 Percent More Terms Than Taxonomy While at the WWW Conference in Banff for the Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization Workshop and was chatting with Jennifer Trant about folksonomies validating and identifying gaps in taxonomy. She pointed out that at least 70% of the tags terms people submitted in Steve Museum […]

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Folksonomy tagging that works

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Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging , social classification, social indexing, social tagging, and other names) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. In contrast to traditional subject indexing, metadata is not only generated by experts but also by creators and consumers of the content. Usually, […]

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The statistically improbable phrase

The statistically improbable phrase I have a new favorite catchphrase this week, provided by a unique search function within Amazon.com. It turns out, now that the on-line retailer has access to the inside content of many of its books, it’s been adding more elaborate search functions to its service. One of the more interesting is […]

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Managing the Complexity of Digital Assets to Support Your Business

DAM solution allows you to maximize the value of digital assets. Much more than an enterprise repository for digital images. ABSTRACT: Organizations of all types are turning to digital asset management (DAM) solutions, such as that offered by EMC. The EMC Documentum® DAM solution allows you to maximize the value of digital assets. Much more […]

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