[Sigia-l] MS Taxonomy Manager

[Derek R]

http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/bkst_column_31.htm

<quote>
Taxonomy Manager will solve the problems of undiscoverable content,
standards variations, and content reuse. An editorial standards team
will use Taxonomy Manager to define standard templates of vocabularies
and terms that can be used by editors and writers.
</quote> 



Victor wrote:

>Anyone have anymore info or experience with [this] product?



The crutch of this product is that you still need a legion of
subject-matter experts (editors) 'to define' everything.

This is a flash-over-substance implementation-marketing ploy aimed at
signaling 'innovation' with one hand while the other does the real
'magic' -- the down-'n'-dirty human job of
*thinking-with-things-as-they-exist* in order to editorialize.

In other words, a bunch of people manually creating connections between
things and assigning worth/value (intelligence) + a bunch of software
code running on computer hardware does not = AI anymore than inverting
the letters of that acronym.

Your typical (more-of-the-same) foolishness...