WAND Taxonomies cover nearly every industry vertical segment and business functional areas and can jumpstart taxonomy development for use in a wide variety of information management applications. We'll be using this blog to highlight how WAND Taxonomies can quickly be imported and begun to be used in different applications.
To start I want to go step by step and show how a pre-built WAND Taxonomy can be
quickly imported into SmartLogic's Semaphore Cloud to jump-start the development of the
ontology models that an organization needs to manage information effectively.
WAND Taxonomies cover almost every business topic and can be
brought into SmartLogic Cloud in a matter of moments.
Taxonomies can be selected and downloaded from the
WAND Taxonomy Library Portal. For this
example, we’ll show how to import the WAND Human Resources Taxonomy, shown in Figure
1.
Figure 1
The taxonomy will be downloaded as an XML file with a .TTL
file extension. TTL is a specific type
of RDF file which is commonly used in semantic and ontology modeling.
Once the .TTL file has been downloaded, it’s time to import
it into Semaphore Cloud. In the
Semaphore Cloud home screen, we’ll create a new model by clicking on the gray
tile and call it “WAND HR”. This will
create a tile for the model, shown in the lower left of Figure 2.
Clicking on the WAND HR model tile will take us to the
interface where we can edit this specific model in Figure 3.
Figure 2
The model is created empty. If we didn’t have the WAND HR
Taxonomy, we would have to begin to create the model from scratch. Instead, we can import the WAND HR Taxonomy
and instantly populate this model with hundreds of professionally built
concepts that are ready to be customized with the Semaphore Cloud ontology
management tools. Click on the menu
icon to the right of “Master” in the header and choose “Import”.
Figure 3
Next, as shown in Figure 4, simply navigate to the .TTL file
that was downloaded from the WAND Taxonomy Library Portal.
Figure 4
Success! The WAND Human Resources Taxonomy has been imported
and now appears in the Semaphore Cloud ontology manager, shown in Figure
5. The taxonomy can be tailored to be
specific to your organizations needs including trimming terms, adding terms,
and creating new relationships between concepts. 
Figure 5
A user can get started with Semaphore Cloud because it’s an
entirely cloud based solution. Importing
a WAND Taxonomy rapidly speeds up the process of creating an ontology model for
an organization. It’s a great
combination that makes it easier and faster than ever to begin leveraging
ontologies and metadata to effectively manage, govern, and search corporate
information.
WAND and SmartLogic recently did a joint webinar called “Discover Practical Solutions for Cloud-Based Information Governance”.
Learn more about the WAND Taxonomy Library Portal and more
about the complete capabilities of Semaphore Cloud.
