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What Executives Need to Know about Retrieval Augmented Generation

Topic: Generative AI This article originally appeared in KMWorld. Organizations are taking a cautious approach to Generative AI – the Large ...

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Knowledge Bots and Machine Learning

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3 Ways Product Data Can Help Fulfill Your Brand Promise

Digital transformation as a concept has lost a lot of its meaning and has become a catch-all for many types of information initiatives. What...

Taxonomy vs Taxonomy vs Taxonomy

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What Is the Difference between Taxonomy and Ontology?

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After a decision has been made to invest into DAM or MRM solutions and the system has been introduced, one of the realizations that many mar...

Naming Conventions for Digital Assets: How much is too much?

Digital assets come in a seemingly limitless variety of flavors. Some intrinsic metadata comes along for the ride with particular formats, b...

Audience Modeling For Taxonomy Development

Regardless of whether you're designing front-end interface functionality or crafting an information architecture that serves as the clothes ...

Taxonomy and Records Management

Taxonomies, as hierarchical vocabulary structures, clearly define relationships between words and concepts. If a taxonomy is implemented and...

Improve The Value Of Knowledge Through Labeling And Categorization

Here is the question posed by Arnold King (http://arnoldkling.com) "I am interested in the phenomenon of knowledge specialization.For exampl...

Subject Matter Experts and Taxonomy Development

Some say that subject matter expertise is necessary in taxonomy development. This is understandable; it makes sense to assume that the more ...

Taxonomy Project RFP Considerations

We recently had a prospect ask what they needed to consider as part of their taxonomy RFP. Here are some things to include: Specific approac...

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