The Semantic Web is the knowledge graph formed by combining connected, Linked Data with intelligent content to facilitate machine understanding and processing of content, metadata, and other information objects at scale.
Kwasnick (1999) identifies four classificatory structures: hierarchies, trees, paradigms, and facets.
Hierarchies divide and redivide things into groups where each new group is a sub-species of its parent group; everything that is true of a group is also true of its sub-groups and so on down (Kwasnick 1999, 25). The Linnean taxonomy of living things is the classic example of this.
Trees, in contrast, do not have the rules of inheritance (Kwasnick 1999, 30). For example, North America contains Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and Canada contains ten provinces and three territories, but Ontario is not a kind of Canada, and Canada is not a kind of North America
A paradigm is a two-dimensional classification (imagine a spreadsheet). Use paradigms when there are two independent aspects to consider. Kwasnick (1999, 35-36) uses the example of terms describing kinship relations, which can be organized into a grid, with sex (male/female) along one axis, and relation (parent, sibling, parent's sibling) along the other axis
Facets will handle three or more dimensions of classification.
Kwasnick (1999, 40-42) lists several things in favour of faceted classifications: they do not require complete knowledge of the entities or their relationships; they are hospitable (can accommodate new entities easily); they are flexible; they are expressive; they can be ad hoc and free-form; and they allow many different perspectives on and approaches to the things classified.
Ranganathan's Colon Classification has five facets, now classic (see Ranganathan (1962), among his many books, for an introduction to the facets and how to use them):
Personality (the something in question, e.g. a person or event in a classification of history, or an animal in a classification of zoology)
Matter (what something is made of)
Energy (how something changes, is processed, evolves)
Space (where something is)
Time (when it happens
look to BC2 for ideas (Broughton 2001, 79):
thing/entity
kind
part
property
material
process
operation
patient
product
by-product
agent
space
time
Spiteri follows Ranganathan and divides classification into three parts: "the Idea Plane, which involves the process of analyzing a subject field into its component part; the Verbal Plane, which involves the process of choosing appropriate terminology to express those component part; and the Notational Plane, which involves the process of expressing these component parts by means of a notational device
Going from Idea (which Spiteri divides into two parts) to Verbal to Notational Planes take us from idea to word to number, from the general concept of what the entity is about to expressing that concept in a controlled vocabulary to turning those words into notation.
My procedure for making the faceted classification system rearranges Vickery's steps, and adds to the start and finish to make it complete from beginning to end.
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Coming up with good content and relevant topics that are aligned with your target audience needs on a regular basis is no easy task. It's easy to burn out when you are creating content. This is commonly referred to as " Blogger Fatigue " and if you have been creating a lot of content yourself with little help, you know what that is all about.
Data visualization tools are being used more and more to help bloggers, copywriters and journalists alike illustrate abstract concepts or complicated data that would be boring if presented in a simple chart or spreadsheet. It is highly recommended you not just blog, but make interesting, engaging and useful blogs that offer visual elements beyond what you commonly see in most blogs.
Looking for information on how to create an infographic on a budget? Well, this is the blog for you. When done correctly, infographics are great for visualizing data and equally as useful in attracting backlinks and social media shares.
I had the opportunity to speak at the Pubcon Austin regional recently on a panel about content campaign development. My presentation was entitled "The Bruce Lee Guide to Strategic Content". I wanted to post up a basic transcription for those who missed it.
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He was recently hired on to Facebook's Content Strategy team. I highly advise you come see this presentation if you are in the Dallas area, you will not be disappointed.
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These templates were my effort to offer a more modern, condensed set of strategic content documents that combine the most essential stuff everyone on the team needs to kick ass.
There is a fundamental difference in the activities of
browsing to find interesting content, as opposed to direct
searching to find relevant documents in a query. It is
similar to the difference between exploring a problem space
to formulate questions, as opposed to actually looking for
answers to specifically formulated questions
Merholz does not use the term “folksonomy.” He has
written on his personal web site that the term is inaccurate
due to its derivation from “taxonomy,” which he argues tend
towards hierarchy and control. (Merholz, 2004) (See also
Taylor, 2004, for discussions of problems and disputes with
the term “taxonomy.”) Merholz prefers the term
“ethnoclassification,” which is what he uses in his article,
and there is no mention of “folksonomy” to be
found. Ethnoclassification is also inaccurate, because as
discussed, what is happening is quite unlike classification
and far more like categorization.