Words have meaning. Words have context.
Taxonomists spend their time wrestling with words, categories, relationships, and meaning. In so doing, it immediately becomes clear that context is an essential part of the work.
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Webinar Recording Available: Leveraging Taxonomies for Real-Time Digital Insights
In this Webinar, hear from Factor and Synaptica about how they approached a challenge at a Fortune 50 company with 26 disparate systems and 17 different taxonomies.
Webinar Recording Available: How to Define, Implement, and Govern a Standard Taxonomy Across Your Marketing Ecosystem
In this webinar, Factor and Claravine discussed best practices to stitch the marketing information ecosystem into a coherent whole.
Webinar Recording Available: Enterprise IA as a Foundational Component of Search Infrastructure
In this Webinar, Factor discusses how to identify the information needs of a search project. Learn how most enterprise “search engine” projects should begin by planting strong roots in the information layer.
Webinar: How Advanced IA and Taxonomy Can Power the Real-Time Enterprise
Thank you to all who attended our Webinar! Factor’s Bram Wessel and Dana Bublitz hosted a free webinar on Enterprise Taxonomy Management on Wednesday April 3. About the Webinar: How Advanced IA and Taxonomy can Power the Real-Time Enterprise In this webinar, Factor discussed how advanced IA and taxonomies can drive real-time performance analysis and …
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Taxonomies and AI Chatbots
This blog post is adapted from a Presentation by Gary Carlson at Taxonomy Bootcamp, November 2018 Taxonomies, AI, and Chatbots: Connecting People With Information There is a natural relationship between AI chatbots and taxonomies—but how do they work together? More importantly, how can taxonomies/ontologies support best AI practices? Taxonomies and ontologies interact with, support, and …
Scalable Taxonomies
In working on enterprise taxonomy projects, the issue of scale always comes up. “Scale” is a word that gets tossed around a lot but what does it really mean for taxonomies? How can taxonomies scale? What do organizations need to think about when considering requirements for taxonomy scale? We’ve found that the best way to …
Webinar: Driving Real-Time Insights with Enterprise Taxonomies
Here at Factor, one of our core values is sharing what we learn with our customers and the community of practice. Our success stories should not exist in a vacuum, and we are always happy to offer some insights into our processes. Because we’re interested in helping others learn how to do this work, Factor …
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Bram Wessel speaks at Interaction 18 in Lyon, France
Bram Wessel speaks at Interaction 18 in Lyon, France
“Was Nate Silver Wrong?” Bram Wessel’s talk at the 2017 IA Summit
Transcript of Bram Wessel’s talk at the 2017 Information Architecture Summit in Vancouver, BC, Canada: “Was Nate Silver Wrong? The Crisis of Modeling in an Era of Clickbait, Fake News, and Alternative Facts.”