1. Relational Navigation: A Taxonomy-Based Approach to Information Access and Discovery Bradley P. Allen, Founder & CTO Siderean Software, Inc. Taxonomy Boot Camp November 9th, 2007

4. Orienteering vs. Teleporting

7. Discovery Using Semantics: Relational Navigation Relational Navigation Concept Faceted Navigation Querying “bags of words” Slicing and dicing homogeneous objects guided by trees of concepts Navigating through a network of related heterogeneous objects Keyword Keyword Keyword Search

9. Zeroing In: The Faceted Navigation Base Case subject s 2 genre s 1 s m s n g 2 g 1 g m g n documents

10. Zeroing In: The Faceted Navigation Base Case subject s 2 genre s 1 s m s n g 2 g 1 g m g n documents

11. Zeroing In: The Faceted Navigation Base Case subject s 2 genre s 1 s m s n g 2 g 1 g m g n documents

12. Adding Faceted Taxonomies subject s 3 genre s 2 s m s n g 3 g 2 g m g n documents g 0 g 1 s 0 s 1

13. Adding Faceted Taxonomies subject s 3 genre s 2 s m s n g 3 g 2 g m g n documents g 0 g 1 s 0 s 1

14. Adding Faceted Taxonomies subject s 3 genre s 2 s m s n g 3 g 2 g m g n documents g 0 g 1 s 0 s 1

15. Adding Faceted Taxonomies subject s 3 genre s 2 s m s n g 3 g 2 g m g n documents g 0 g 1 s 0 s 1

16. Adding Faceted Taxonomies subject s 3 genre s 2 s m s n g 3 g 2 g m g n documents g 0 g 1 s 0 s 1

17. Adding Faceted Taxonomies subject s 3 genre s 2 s m s n g 3 g 2 g m g n documents g 0 g 1 s 0 s 1

18. Adding Faceted Taxonomies subject s 3 genre s 2 s m s n g 3 g 2 g m g n documents g 0 g 1 s 0 s 1

19. Adding Search subject s 3 genre s 2 s m s n g 3 g 2 g n documents g 0 g 1 s 0 s 1 “bacon”

20. Finding And Following Relationships subject s 2 genre s 1 s m s n g 2 g 1 g m g n documents g 0 g 1 s 0 s 1 persons dc:creator

21. Finding And Following Relationships subject genre documents persons dc:creator frbr:creatorOf title location corporate bodies size industry foaf:member foaf:member -1

23. Example: Clearstone Portal

24. Example: Clearstone Portal

25. Example: Clearstone Portal

26. Example: Clearstone Portal

27. Example: Clearstone Portal

28. Example: Clearstone Portal

29. Example: Clearstone Portal

30. Example: Clearstone Portal

31. Building Relational Navigation Applications Extract entities, terms, attributes and relationships that unify the content and data using standard taxonomies and ontologies Aggregate content, data from inside and outside the firewall Generate social navigation experiences for resource discovery

32. Use Case: Oracle Marketing Products, technologies, posts, authors, events Content repositories of product marketing information, blog feeds Navigate over product information, blog and forum posts and event information

33. Use Case: Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials Medical terms, test events, reports, study authors, compounds, protocols Content repositories of pre-clinical and clinical trials, clinical test DB Navigate over clinical documents and records

34. Use Case: Financial Services IT Portfolio Management People, services, products, organizations, responsibilities People directory DB, IT services DB, HW/SW product DB Navigate over products and services

37. Navigation Using Folksonomies and Taxonomies subject s 3 tag s 2 s m s n t 2 t 1 t m t n documents s 0 s 1

38. Tagging the Tags in Editorial Workflow

39. Use Case: Online Newspaper Publishing Topics, people, organizations, sources RSS/Atom feeds from multiple Web sources, proprietary premium content Navigate over aggregated news and topic stream filtered by editorial tagging

41. Siderean Software, Inc. 390 North Sepulveda Blvd. Suite 2070 El Segundo, CA 90245-4475 USA +1 310 647-4266 http://www.siderean.com [email_address]