Competitive Intelligence Marketplace

Need More Metadata

From AlacraBlog:

Worse than not sharing, many other sources of news (and other information) don't tag their content at all.  On Alacra Premium and the Alacra Store there's a high correlation between the quantity and quality of the metadata and the revenue we generate from a given content source.  Knowledge intensive customers subscribe to Factiva and LexisNexis for the consistent tagging as well as the overall aggregation.  At this point, tagging content is not a luxury - it's an absolute necessity.

Taxonomy Warehouse

Synapse has a Taxonomy Warehouse that includes:

• 510 Taxonomies
• Classified by 73 subject domains
• Produced by 260 publishers
• In 39 languages
• 65% produced in digital media
• 100 directly licensable

Business Case Studies for the Use of Taxonomies

Synapse has a nice explanation (here) of what taxonomies are, and how they help information searchers.  They throw in a couple of client case studies to help show how taxonomies can be applied by businesses to help more effectively present information.

Factiva Acquires Synapse

Factiva recently purchased Synapse, a company that describes itself thusly:

In the world of taxonomies, thesauri and knowledge management, Synapse Corporation offers ready-made taxonomies, enterprise-class software solutions, domain expertise, and professional lexicography and indexing services.