Topic Maps, Taxonomies & Ontologies

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CONTENT CHAOS
A recent University of California study asserts that the amount of new information in the world doubles every single year. Already, this amounts to an estimated 57 million global gigabytes.

Information is useless unless it can be searched, retrieved and shared.

The explosive growth in global information is pushing organizations in every sector to adopt overarching information management strategies. The key to any successful strategy is how well you organize this information.

Classify, Organize, Make Connections

Topic maps, taxonomies and ontologies are critical components of any forward looking information strategy. Innodata Isogen is the leader in the design and application of these powerful tools.

Our solutions help bridge the gap between information and knowledge so that:

• Meaningful relationships between topics can be specified
• Data can be queried in a specific, meaningful way
• Information can be filtered so that it can be seen in a particular context

Knowledge Interface

Innodata Isogen's topic map solutions represent a powerful knowledge interface that sits above a collection of information – becoming, essentially, the electronic equivalent of a printed index and thesaurus combined. As such, they become an interactive map of the information universe.

In the context of this knowledge interface, our topic map solutions help define the necessary interaction between people and specific domains of knowledge:

• Relevant subjects populate the interface
• Important relationships between subjects are specified
• Relevant qualifications of subjects and their relationships are indicated
• Appropriate occurrences of subjects are cited

The inheritance of taxonomy relations makes them an especially powerful descriptive device and our taxonomies help define the relationships that exist between your topics.