We’ve been working some interesting changes here at Potomac Indexing over the past six months, including partner departures and arrivals, and a new legal home for PI. Two of our long-time partners, Seth Maislin and Kay Schlembach, have retired as Potomac Indexing partners as of the first of January this year, and we will definitely […]
Yellow Page Listings: Enhancing an Ontology
In a previous post, I related our experience with a large-scale taxonomy project for a huge jobs database. In that project, I worked with a complex hierarchy of job categories and sub-categories. It was mind-boggling, but I learned a tremendous amount about how the human mind still trumps the computer when it comes to discerning […]
Matching Job Titles Across Cultures
Here at PI, we like to humanize the search process for lots of different categories of knowledge. Two projects we worked on last year epitomized the need that many information providers have to make sure that their search keywords and taxonomic structures are complete in the sense that they have enough of the right sorts […]
So Many Jobs!
Not sure I’ve ever been bored as an indexer and taxonomist, and this latest project is no exception. The whole big idea isn’t finished yet, so I’ll leave client identity out of this post, but I “rolled off the project” as the corporate folks put it, last week. Unlike most of my book indexing projects, […]
