authority files

Lists of terms used to control the variant names for such entities as countries, people, and organizations. Non-preferred terms may be linked to preferred terms, but unlike a thesaurus, there is little, if any, hierarchy. Example: Getty Geographic Authority File.

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Metadata Independence Day: Coming soon?
The new Managed Metadata Service in SharePoint 2010 points toward the evolution of metadata independence for departments and smaller organizations. Montague Institute Review June 2010

First 5,000 tags released to the linked data cloud
Over the last several months The New York Times has manually mapped more than 5,000 person name subject headings onto Freebase and DBPedia -- key pieces of the Semantic Web linked data cloud. New York Times October 2009

SharePoint: Search system or search engine?
This article describes the difference between search systems and search engines, tells why it matters, and looks at some search system features that are implemented in MOSS 2007. Montague Institute Review May 2008

A taxonomy for the Homeland Security Digital Library
Society member Angela Pitts tells how her team at the Naval Postgraduate School created an interdisciplinary taxonomy for the new Homeland Security Digital Library using Teragram's auto-categorization software and the FAST search engine. Montague Institute Review October 2005

Why your CFO needs metadata management
Sandy Hostetter tells how better metadata management can help CFO's produce reports that are more comprehensive, consistent, and reliable. Montague Institute Review November 2004

Taxonomy milestones: lessons learned
Tasks, deliverables, and work flow changes for each of five stages in the development of a taxonomy for our Web journal and research material. Montague Institute Review August 2003

Tip of the iceberg
Benefits of meta information, discusses factors which influence how much a company should invest in creating it, and provides tips for minimizing the cost. Montague Institute Review January 1998

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