Taxonomy at The Economist

I am always on the lookout for good articles on taxonomy, because of my interest in the taxonomies of Information Architecture and classic linnean classification of birds. Here are a couple of features from Feb 9 Economist: Names for saleFeb 9th 2006From The Economist print editionThe ancient science of taxonomy might benefit from a little … Read more

AIfIA sponsors metadata practices conference

From aifia.org: AIfIA sponsors conferences and events helping to build the practice ofinformation architecture. Learn more about AIfIA’s sponsorship programat http://aifia.org/pg/ia_events_sponsorship.php#000247 ***********September 30, 2004 — AIfIA will sponsor Metadata for Interoperabilityin the Global Corporate Environment, a pre-conference for the DC-2004International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications. The one-day pre-conference program takes place on October … Read more

Ontologies

Here’s two introductions to ontologies: Ontologies Come of Age Smarter Content Publishing: Creating a Semantic Content Management System(VLombardi)

Some things I am looking for:

Program that takes XML tree data and displays them in a pretty tree diagram. It would be great if I could control what part of the tree it shows by collapsing/expanding nodes, allow me to color code the display of the lines, nodes & terminus labels to metadata coded for each node, etc. Is there … Read more