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Semantic architect and swimmer.
Looking forward to being a co-presenter with Yonah Levenson at Taxonomy Boot Camp discussing the relationship between taxonomists and information architects! #taxobc #taxonomy #informationarchitecture
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November 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Looking forward to being a co-presenter with Yonah Levenson at Taxonomy Boot Camp discussing the relationship between taxonomists and information architects! #taxobc #taxonomy #informationarchitecture
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In October's blog, I summarize the high-level themes from the Henry Stewart DAM and Semantic Data Conferences in New York. #artificialintelligence #taxonomy #metadata
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Semantic Data 2025 Themes and Trends
“Trust in me, just in me / Shut your eyes and trust in me” – The Jungle Book I attended the Henry Steward Semantic Data Conference co-located with HS DAM in New York City a few weeks ago. As …
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October 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
In October's blog, I summarize the high-level themes from the Henry Stewart DAM and Semantic Data Conferences in New York. #artificialintelligence #taxonomy #metadata
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In September's blog, I continue themes I will be discussing in my keynote at Semantic Data New York on October 14th.
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The AI Bot Wars
“A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” – Isaac Asimov, I, Robot Someday in the distant future, automated artificial intelligence bot…
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September 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
In September's blog, I continue themes I will be discussing in my keynote at Semantic Data New York on October 14th.
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In August's blog, I revisit a topic I presented on years ago: developing taxonomies and ontologies in an Agile workplace. #taxonomy #agile
Taxonomy & Agile
“The purpose of a scrum is to restart play with a contest for possession after a minor infringement or stoppage.” – World Rugby, Law 19 In 2010, I worked as a taxonomist (and content and reco…
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August 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
In July’s blog, I lead into my presentation at Semantic Data New York in October by considering the current state of truth in relation to semantic data.
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Truth & Consequences
“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.” – Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation The art and science of taxonomy, developed by Carl Linna…
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July 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
In July’s blog, I lead into my presentation at Semantic Data New York in October by considering the current state of truth in relation to semantic data.
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In June's blog, I do a little wallowing in the taxonomy blues.
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Taxonomy Blues
“I got to keep movin’, I got to keep movin’/Blues fallin’ down like hail, blues fallin’ down like hail/Hmm-mmm, blues fallin’ down like hail, blues fallin’ down …
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June 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
In June's blog, I do a little wallowing in the taxonomy blues.
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In May's blog, I consider friction and complexity through the lens of taxonomy and ontology practice. #taxonomy #ontology
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Friction and Complexity
“Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress and without conflict, no victory.” &…
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May 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
In May's blog, I consider friction and complexity through the lens of taxonomy and ontology practice. #taxonomy #ontology
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In April's blog, I consider the use of skos:altLabel and possible variants.
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Nobody’s Alt but Mine
“A good ruler has to learn his world’s language, and that’s different for every world, the language you don’t hear just with your ears.” – Frank Herbert, Dune Synonymy Synon…
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April 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In April's blog, I consider the use of skos:altLabel and possible variants.
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Looking forward to presenting "No Conspiracies Here! Clear and Transparent Taxonomy Foundations" at #IAC25 on Friday, May 2nd!
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IAC25 Program – IAC: Information Architecture Conference
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April 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Looking forward to presenting "No Conspiracies Here! Clear and Transparent Taxonomy Foundations" at #IAC25 on Friday, May 2nd!
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In March's blog, I consider the difference between taxonomy concepts with longevity and ephemeral, trending concepts which can be useful to reach a company's audience.
Taxonomies, the Eternal, and the Ephemeral
“Have you sped through fleeting customs, popularities?” – Walt Whitman, As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores Taxonomists and ontologists are, quite reasonably, obsessed with the is-ness of…
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March 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
In March's blog, I consider the difference between taxonomy concepts with longevity and ephemeral, trending concepts which can be useful to reach a company's audience.
In February's post, I consider who should own the taxonomy and where it should live in an organization.
Who Owns the Taxonomy?
“Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.” – Václav Havel In my experience, when a business…
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February 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
In February's post, I consider who should own the taxonomy and where it should live in an organization.
In my first blog post of 2025, I consider the path I took to becoming a taxonomist and the skills I believe someone needs to have to be successful in this role. #taxonomy #careers
The Path to Taxonomist
“And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?” – The Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime When people ask me what I do for a living, I usually say something like “information manag…
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January 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
In my last blog post of 2024, I consider the zeitgeist of misinformation and the place of semantic models. #taxonomy #Misinformation
Taxonomies and Turnover, or Johnny Pneumonic
“In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one ‘episteme’ that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in theory or silently i…
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December 20, 2024 at 7:42 PM
In my last blog post of 2024, I consider the zeitgeist of misinformation and the place of semantic models. #taxonomy #Misinformation
In November's blog, I recount major themes from the co-located 2024 KMWorld conferences held in Washington, D.C.
KMWorld Themes and Trends
“At a certain level of machine-ness, of immersion in virtual machinery, there is no more distinction between man and machine.” – Jean Baudrillard, Violence of the Virtual and Integral Reality…
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November 27, 2024 at 10:58 PM
In November's blog, I recount major themes from the co-located 2024 KMWorld conferences held in Washington, D.C.
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The $7,500 tax credit for buyers of electric vehicles could be vanishing early in the new Trump administration, but that might actually be good news for Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk, one of President-elect Donald Trump’s most prominent backers.
In October’s blog, I consider how concealing the complexity of semantic models has the unintended consequence of hiding taxonomists’ work. #taxonomy #userexperience
Specialty Skills and the Risks of Hidden Complexity
“The Cube is, at the same time, a symbol of simplicity and complexity.” – Ernő Rubik Taxonomists and ontologists–sometimes separate but more often one and the same role I’ll simply call a “ta…
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October 28, 2024 at 4:03 PM
In October’s blog, I consider how concealing the complexity of semantic models has the unintended consequence of hiding taxonomists’ work. #taxonomy #userexperience
In September's post, I focus on the challenges around trying to model processes and sequential information in taxonomies. #taxonomy #ontology
Modeling a Moving Target
“Like a wave in the physical world, in the infinite ocean of the medium which pervades all, so in the world of organisms, in life, an impulse started proceeds onward, at times, may be, with the speed ...
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September 23, 2024 at 5:08 PM
In July's blog, I consider how not to say what you mean in taxonomy. #taxonomy
How Not to Say What You Mean
The author at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece, the site of the first modern Olympic Games. “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because eve...
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July 29, 2024 at 4:08 PM
In July's blog, I consider how not to say what you mean in taxonomy. #taxonomy
This month, I cover some methods for communicating the value of taxonomies to potential business stakeholders. #taxonomy
Taxonomy Calling
“Hello, is it me you’re looking for? / ‘Cause I wonder where you are / And I wonder what you do / Are you somewhere feeling lonely?” - Lionel Richie, Hello One of the most challenging activities in ta...
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June 26, 2024 at 4:50 PM
This month, I cover some methods for communicating the value of taxonomies to potential business stakeholders. #taxonomy
In May's blog, I discuss the importance of being able to separate and filter semantic and navigational taxonomies. #taxonomy
Tempering Your “No Filter” Taxonomy
“Do what they say / Say what they mean / One thing leads to another.” - One Thing Leads to Another, The Fixx Are your consumers overwhelmed by a barrage of terms and phrases coming at them from your t...
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May 28, 2024 at 10:38 PM
In May's blog, I discuss the importance of being able to separate and filter semantic and navigational taxonomies. #taxonomy
In this month's blog, I consider how to define the borders of what is included in taxonomies.
Defining Taxonomy Borders
“Before I built a wall I’d ask to know/ What I was walling in or walling out,/ And to whom I was like to give offense.” - Robert Frost, Mending Wall What data should be included in taxonomy models can...
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April 18, 2024 at 4:20 PM
In this month's blog, I consider how to define the borders of what is included in taxonomies.
Here is my third blog entry of 2024. In this blog, I consider the slow pace of taxonomy and ontology building vs the rapid pace of machine learning models applied to semantic development.
As with all my blog posts, my opinions are my own.
As with all my blog posts, my opinions are my own.
The Taxonomy Tortoise and the ML Hare
“I knew I shoulda’ taken that left turn at Albuquerque.” - Bugs Bunny For better or worse, much of my childhood was informed by Looney Tunes, Monty Python, and a diet of science fiction ranging from t...
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March 26, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Here is my third blog entry of 2024. In this blog, I consider the slow pace of taxonomy and ontology building vs the rapid pace of machine learning models applied to semantic development.
As with all my blog posts, my opinions are my own.
As with all my blog posts, my opinions are my own.