Down the rabbithole - Finder tags
Making tagging easier (Go back) It's fairly easy, though not immediately obvious how, to tag files in Mac OS. In the Finder, if you bring…
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Handling files - a prelude to building a Desktop content graph
Following my earlier series of articles on building a content graph (based on content in web content management systems), I am now looking at whether…
Read moreUnpacking SHACL
An abundance of acronyms Semantic technologies seem to suffer more than most from galloping acronymitis; the tendency to come up with the most tortured, obscure…
Read moreBuilding a content graph, part seven: GraphDB APIs
Across the first six articles I covered the use of information components representing structured content, taxonomies and graph databases to hold the relevant information (and…
Read moreBuilding a content graph, part six: The graph database
Over the course of the last five articles I have shown how it is possible to build up an information model (ontology) that can allow…
Read moreBuilding a content graph, part five; Information model design
A recurring thread running through the articles in this series is the information model. I have mentioned the use of classes, relations and metadata. Up…
Read moreBuilding a content graph, part four; Middleware for linking information
So far, I have talked about some of the information-centred components of a content graph; Content graph items, Content graph authors and the Tellura Content…
Read moreBuilding a content graph, part three; Taxonomy design
This article is about the taxonomy component of a content graph. Although the idea of a content graph is centred on links between content objects…
Read moreBuilding a content graph, part two; Content design
In this article I’m going to go into how well-structured content architecture is important in the design of content graphs. I will discuss how information…
Read moreBuilding a content graph, part one: Guiding principles
This is the first in a series of seven articles on building a content graph. In this part I will introduce the concept of a…
Read moreHow to make a shared secret
Dear bank; let's share a secret I have had running battles about security with banks over decades; more or less ever since they started offering…
Read moreBuild your own PoolParty backup utility
As a part of your governance process, if you are a PoolParty taxonomy manager you will know that you have a number of options for…
Read moreBuild a taxonomy using PoolParty CardSorting
This is rather an unusual article for me, as I don't generally talk in detail about other company's tools. What's different in this case is…
Read moreBuild an autocomplete search tool for PoolParty
For one of my projects I wanted to emulate the situation where a content author or editor needs to search a PoolParty project for matching…
Read moreTaxonomies and ontologies explained
This webinar (featuring Andreas Blumauer, CEO of Semantic Web Company and Ian Piper of Tellura) explores both taxonomies and ontologies, and demonstrates how they work together to help you improve your…
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