dvine has developed its own classification technology on the market as part of divine SinglePoint Search.
divine taxonomy models human judgment as a set of categories grouped in a hierarchical fashion that mirrors business users' search for information, says the company.
Sets of references within the classification system provide a standard terminology that enables enterprises to organize the information environment that is often distorted by poor meta-tagging.
Organizations implementing divine SinglePoint Search have access to the divine established taxonomy, which includes more than 17,000 nodes and requires no customization.
The technology says the company retrieves all of the relevant information while bypassing unrelated information and saving time in the development and editing process with this ready-to-use taxonomy.
The problem organizations face today is that with enterprise search solutions, the organization is required to create its own taxonomy, a process that can take years, and often results in overlapping nodes that limit the effectiveness of the taxonomy.
Alternately, organizations can purchase pre-existing "starter kit" taxonomies that are industry specific, enabling better searching of industry-specific data, but limiting the effectiveness of the enterprise-wide information, such as human resource data.
A second problem arises for businesses taking either approach once the taxonomy is in place. Without an auto-classification system to classify the information to the most appropriate subjects, the taxonomy cannot be used without the time consuming process of manual tagging.
To effectively use large amounts of data, the organization must train the auto classification system on the meaning of each taxonomy node a daunting task for all but the most specialized information professional.
A team of librarians has built divine's taxonomy over the course of several years.
It was assembled by using a number of trusted sources including the Library of Congress subject headings index, SIC/NAICS system, the Dewey Decimal System and an additional 1,000 industry specific taxonomies.
The team has optimized the taxonomy for auto classification and continues to update it and train it for auto-classification on a regular basis.
In its current form, there are more than 17,000 subject terms in the taxonomy that produce exceptional out-of-the-box results for customers in a wide range of industries.

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