[Sigia-l] Taxonomies and MultiTes

[Anita Johnson]

MultiTes, thesaurus construction software at http://www.multites.com/ has been 
highly recommended to me by two people at the University of Illinois who use 
it/do thesaurus consulting. You can see an example of it at the University of 
Illinois Fire Service Institute at 
http://128.174.100.91/dbtw-wpd/newWeb/fireTalk.asp

Anita Johnson
MS Candidate, Library & Information Science
University of Illinois
arjohnso at uiuc.edu

>===== Original Message From <derek at derekrogerson.com> =====
>http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/bkst_column_31.htm
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>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>
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>Victor wrote:
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>>Anyone have anymore info or experience with [this] product?
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>The crutch of this product is that you still need a legion of
>subject-matter experts (editors) 'to define' everything.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Your typical (more-of-the-same) foolishness...
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