Build 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 moreTechnology writing by Ian Piper (farewell Tellura)
For 22 years I've used this site to publish the work of Tellura Information Services. I'm now retiring and the company is closing, so the company domain tellura.co.uk will cease operating. When that happens I will move the content over to another personal domain, but for the time being you will continue to find my articles on this domain. Feel free to browse around and read.
The latest article set on here is about using the popular and powerful Xojo tool. Xojo is a cross-platform development system, creating native applications for MacOS, Windows, Linux, IOS, Android and the web with a common code base. These articles are on how to make this easy-to-use system even more friendly by creating templated applications, where a lot of the hard work has already been done.
I've also published a series of articles on designing and building content graphs, focusing on practical architectural design and implementation.
Build 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…
Read moreWhy things work better than strings
Human beings are natural organisers; we spend our entire lives classifying things, grouping and ordering things and comparing and contrasting things with other things. It's…
Read moreA complete worked application
This technical note will show how to create a complete, usable web application using the PoolParty API. This example shows how to extend the functionality…
Read moreWe need to talk about tagging
We need to talk about tagging; specifically, assistive tagging; what it is, how you do it and why it works better than either manual tagging or…
Read moreGetting started with the PoolParty API
This technical note is here to get you started on making your own semantic software using the PoolParty API. PoolParty is a software system for creating…
Read moreCustom searches in PoolParty
This short technical note shows a couple of less well-known PoolParty features that should help you with finding information in your taxonomies. If you are looking…
Read moreGovernance matters - here's why
Back in the early 2000s I worked on a programme of taxonomy development for a UK government department. My job was to help design and build a…
Read moreBuilding a content graph
Organisations that work with content-rich information systems often have to contend with two major problems: The first problem is usually addressed, with varying levels of success,…
Read moreClassification without integration
If you are using a taxonomy management system such as PoolParty to create business taxonomies, you may well be doing so in order to help with classifying your…
Read moreUsing SPARQL queries with PoolParty
This is an introduction to using the SPARQL query language to talk to PoolParty. PoolParty stores taxonomy project data in the form of graph databases, with the individual chunks…
Read moreUsing the PoolParty Extractor for assistive tagging
In recent articles I have been describing assistive tagging as a way to blend elements of machine learning with human ingenuity. You may be wondering…
Read moreIntroducing the Content Graph Explorer
Note: this is an old article (December 2020). I have kept it here as it's all still true, but the work has been superseded by…
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