1. Low-Cost & No-Cost Taxonomy Tools Presented November 2, 2006 in San Jose, CA by Mark Goldstein, International Research Center PO Box 825, Tempe, AZ 85280-0825, Voice & Fax: 602-470-0389, markg@researchedge.com, URL: http://www.researchedge.com/ © 2006 - International Research Center

2. Low-Cost & No-Cost Taxonomy Tools Thursday, 11/2/06 from 2:30-3:00 PM Presented by Mark Goldstein, International Research Center Often taxonomy development and its integration are seen as part of expensive and complex enterprise toolsets and suites. There are, however, a number of free open source and low-cost commercial tools that enable full taxonomy development and maintenance for more modest budgets. This session covers the availability of existing open source taxonomies, a variety of taxonomy tools for modest budgets, comparisons of their capabilities, and an analysis of their applicability for integration to portal and search applications.

3. Taxonomy From Greek verb τασσε ῖ ν or tassein = "to classify" and νόμος or nomos = law, science, cf "economy“ Taxonomy was once only the science of classifying living organisms (alpha taxonomy) Later the word was applied in a wider sense, and may also refer to either a classification of things, or the principles underlying the classification Almost anything, animate objects, inanimate objects, places, and events, may be classified according to some taxonomic scheme Taxonomies, which are comprised of taxonomic units known as taxa (singular taxon), are frequently hierarchical in structure, commonly displaying parent-child relationships Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy

4. http://taxocop.wikispaces.com/TaxoTools

5. Interviews/ Surveys Manual Online Submittals Selective Web Site Indexing User Feedback & Suggestions Research Area Knowledge Map Database Queries, News Feeds & Blogs Communities of Practice (CoP) Indexing Research Area Ontology/Taxonomy Autonomic Semantic Analysis & Meta Tagging Research Area XML Variant Manual Review & Meta Tagging Ontology, Taxonomy & XML Authoring Tools Data SourcesInformation Architecture Management Information Processing Information Warehouse Research Area Meta Data Repository Knowledge Visualization, GUI & Navigation

6. Ontology & Taxonomy Authoring & Maintenance Text Mining/Semantic Analysis Knowledge Visualization & Navigation Meta Tagging & Database Repository Portal Creation & Maintenance Communities of Practice (CoP) & Collaboration Autonomy Corporation (with Portal Overlay)

7. http://dublincore.org/

8. http://www.w3.org/2004/OWL/

9. http://www.schemalogic.com/

11. IBM uses UIMA-enabled products and services help customers build applications in a variety of solution areas including: FinancialGovernmentLife Sciences AerospaceChemicalClinical InsuranceMedical Healthcare http://www.research.ibm.com/UIMA/

12. http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/semanticstk http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/semanticstk/download

13. http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/uima

14. http://uima.lti.cs.cmu.edu:8080/UCR/Welcome.do

15. Nstein Launches 12 UIMA Annotators Nstein Technologies, a leader in text mining and multilingual information access solutions, today announced the launch of 12 annotators, compliant with the open-source Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) standard developed by IBM. The UIMA standard provides the foundation for new search-related applications that extract hidden meaning from unstructured information. Nstein’s annotators will allow organizations adopting the UIMA standard to considerably expand their content discovery capabilities associated with market intelligence, customer intelligence and early warning applications. Nstein’s topic-based categorization annotators are now available for the automated tagging of concepts, names of people and organizations, geographic locations, dates and currencies in unstructured documents. Sentiment-based categorization annotators are also available for the tagging of objective and subjective statements in documents, as well as overall negative or positive statements. Other annotators launched by Nstein include fact finding, annotating facts related to human resources movements (hiring, firing, promotion) as well as financial information (mergers and acquisitions, investments, etc.). Source: Nstein Technologies Inc. 8/21/06 (http://www.nstein.com/)http://www.nstein.com/

16. http://www.fastsearch.com/

17. http://www.dataharmony.com/

18. http://www.eclipse.org/emf/

19. http://www.sekt-project.org/project/

20. In order to fully benefit from the three core technologies in Semantically Enable Knowledge Technologies (SEKT): Ontology-based Metadata, Human Language Technology and Knowledge Discovery, they must be used together. This convergence is now timely because of the maturing of the three separate disciplines, particularly ontology technology, which has received much attention over the last 2-3 years. Next Generation Knowledge Management solutions will be built upon ontology-based metadata (OMT) and thus the creation and management of machine-interpretable information and the consequent use of ontologies. The integrated management of ontologies and metadata, especially their generation, mediation and evolution, is fundamental to this development and relies in part on innovative Human Language Technology (HLT) and Knowledge Discovery (KD) methods. Advanced reasoning capabilities will strongly support the evolution of ontologies and metadata and greatly reduce the overhead for maintenance. Work in advanced reasoning will include the development of techniques for robust reasoning, i.e. reasoning in the presence of inconsistencies, i.e. in order to give meaningful results even when the overall ontology has conflicts. It will also include flexible reasoning which can cope with changes and conflicts in a given model and can fall back to old versions or change the scope of reasoning to a consistent set of statements. The advanced reasoning work will support the evolution of ontologies and meta-data, in order to reduce maintenance overhead. http://www.sekt-project.org/project/

21. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture

22. http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/ditaspec.html

23. http://www.termtree.com.au/ Export to CSV, Metabrowser and XML. API available for custom application development. Records management support (optional) for Document Workbench, TRIM Captura, TRIM Context, Objective, PCDocs/Hummingbird DM, Recfind, Seraph/Vignette and Dataworks.

24. The Cyc Knowledge Server is a very large, multi-contextual knowledge base and inference engine developed to break the "software brittleness bottleneck" by constructing a foundation of basic "common sense" knowledge--a semantic substratum of terms, rules, and relations--that will enable a variety of knowledge- intensive products and services. (http://www.cyc.com/)http://www.cyc.com/ The OpenCyc KB Browser http://www.opencyc.org/

25. http://www.recommind.com/

26. Protégé-Frames Classes Tab Protégé-OWL OWLViz Extension http://protege.stanford.edu/

27. http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Main_Page Ontology Evaluation Subsite - http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Ontology_evaluationhttp://ontoworld.org/wiki/Ontology_evaluation If ontologies are the foundation of the semantic web, they better be stable. Ontoworld.org

28. http://www.oclc.org/terminologies/

29. http://www.xbrl.org/FRTaxonomies/

30. http://www.ubmatrix.com/products/products_taxonomy_designer.asp

31. http://www.autonomy.com/

32. http://www.factiva.com/content/intindexing.asp

33. http://www.taxonomywarehouse.com/

36. http://species.wikimedia.org/

37. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/ U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

38. http://www.searchtools.com/info/classifiers.html http://www.searchtools.com/info/classifiers-tools.html http://www.searchtools.com/info/visualization.html

39. http://taxocop.wikispaces.com/Topic+Maps

40. Taxonomy in Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy Taxonomy CoP TaxoTools - http://taxocop.wikispaces.com/TaxoToolshttp://taxocop.wikispaces.com/TaxoTools Taxonomy CoP Topic Maps - http://taxocop.wikispaces.com/Topic+Mapshttp://taxocop.wikispaces.com/Topic+Maps Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) - http://dublincore.org/http://dublincore.org/ W3C Web Ontology Language (OWL) - http://www.w3.org/2004/OWL/http://www.w3.org/2004/OWL/ SchemaLogic - http://www.schemalogic.com/http://www.schemalogic.com/ IBM Integrated Ontology Development Toolkit - http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/semanticstkhttp://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/semanticstk IBM Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) - http://www.research.ibm.com/UIMA/ http://www.research.ibm.com/UIMA/ UIMA Component Repository - http://uima.lti.cs.cmu.edu:8080/UCR/Welcome.dohttp://uima.lti.cs.cmu.edu:8080/UCR/Welcome.do Nstein Technologies - http://www.nstein.com/, FAST Search - http://www.fastsearch.com/http://www.nstein.com/http://www.fastsearch.com/ Data Harmony - http://www.dataharmony.com/http://www.dataharmony.com/ Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) - http://www.eclipse.org/emf/http://www.eclipse.org/emf/ Semantically Enable Knowledge Technologies (SEKT) Project - http://www.sekt-project.org/project/http://www.sekt-project.org/project/ Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.0/archspec/ditaspec.html TermTree - http://www.termtree.com.au/, OpenCyc - http://www.opencyc.org/http://www.termtree.com.au/http://www.opencyc.org/ MindServer Categorization - http://www.recommind.com/http://www.recommind.com/ Protégé Platform - http://protege.stanford.edu/http://protege.stanford.edu/ Ontoworld.org - http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Main_Pagehttp://ontoworld.org/wiki/Main_Page OCLC Terminology Services - http://www.oclc.org/terminologies/http://www.oclc.org/terminologies/ XBRL Financial Reporting Taxonomies - http://www.xbrl.org/FRTaxonomies/http://www.xbrl.org/FRTaxonomies/ UBmatrix XBRL Designer - http://www.ubmatrix.com/products/products_taxonomy_designer.asphttp://www.ubmatrix.com/products/products_taxonomy_designer.asp Autonomy Taxonomies - http://www.autonomy.com/, Wikispecies - http://species.wikimedia.org/http://www.autonomy.com/http://species.wikimedia.org/ NCBI Taxonomy- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/ Taxonomies Search Tools - http://www.searchtools.com/info/classifiers.htmlhttp://www.searchtools.com/info/classifiers.html Low-Cost & No-Cost Taxonomy Resources Summary Factiva Taxonomy Warehouse - http://www.factiva.com/content/intindexing.asp http://www.taxonomywarehouse.com/