[Sigia-l] MS Taxonomy Manager

[David R. Austen]

Hello Derek,

Not to take anything away from your caveat . . .

What is encouraging is that there will (always?) still be a need for
those with information or library science backgrounds and similar
training/skills. We will create those taxonomies, build those thesauri
so that this technology is worth something in the world of normal
workers.

The day MS can completely and successfully analyze entire texts
(assigning keywords matched to the correct synonym and categories
according to function) is the day I'll sweat.

In the meantime, those who can successfully *market* their IA skills
should not be worried.


David Austen



Thursday, May 16, 2002, 4:02:59 PM, you wrote:


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

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



DR> Victor wrote:

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



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

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

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

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

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