To paraphrase Patrick Lambe (yet again): Building classification schemes is at the same time deceptively simple and fiendishly complicated. It's deceptively simple because it's one of those tasks that you can just start by putting terms into a spreadsheet, or into the...
Metadata, like the electrical grid and the highway system, fades into the background of everyday life, taken for granted as just part of what makes modern life run smoothly. When metadata is doing its job well it fades into the background, almost to the point of being...
2020 was a year like no other – a year of massive change forced upon as we collectively reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic. Much has been written about the way in which we adapted to our changing circumstances, in particular, the need to pivot our business models to...
It's always been my contention that we folk in information management should use our own products. So that we can experience the same pain as our users are feeling. So here at Synercon we use our own a.k.a.® software to build metadata and classification schemes which...