Combining/merging taxonomies?

New to the tool, so many things to learn... I'm a librarian!

For now we are using MT purely as a taxonomy building tool: extracting structure from tab-delimited files and vocabularies from text and html files.

Is it possible to copy/paste or in some other way combine nodes/tree structures from one project to another? I don't see a way to do it with drag and drop: if I'm in one Project and try to Copy a node to another Project I get an error.

It would be great to be able to do this, as we had hoped to work on developing subsections of a large taxo by distributing the work among instances of Studio, and then combine the subsections into a master taxo on the server.

Do we have to do this simply by copying chunks of tab-delimited text into one file, and then go through it to move/edit nodes around? That will certainly create some workflow and versioning headaches.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Migrateduser

There are a number of ways. Best places to start are:

a) import vocabularies in MT XML format into the master project. Where required, use root categories to create facets. This is most relevant for existing taxonomy data. Consider using the iwlist2vocab CLT for converting different formats to the MT XML. XSLT is a good tool for other XML/XML conversion.

b) If you are looking to generate vocabularies from a document corpus, there two general (and complimentary) approaches:
--- Use the iwgenclusters or iwgenvocab to generate categories from vocabulary distribution in the corpus
--- Configure MT keyphrase, keyword and entity extraction and process the corpus to generate a list of candidate concepts for manual discovery

Cheers,
Clark

SledDawg

Hi, back again with this problem...

cbreyman wrote:

"a) import vocabularies in MT XML format into the master project. Where required, use root categories to create facets. This is most relevant for existing taxonomy data. Consider using the iwlist2vocab CLT for converting different formats to the MT XML."

I have tried this, but I must be doing something wrong. I build a separate vocabulary as an MT XML file (like, list of states and ALT=abbreviations) and I want to import it into a larger taxo that includes regions, countries, etc., with the new states section to go under U.S.

In Studio, I do Import>Vocabulary from XML and I can see a process happen, and a new file shows up in the Open Project>Source file list, but the new node and associated vocabulary is not visible in the larger taxo project.

What am I doing wrong? Is it a UID problem perhaps?

Any help appreciated.

Dave G.

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Migrateduser

Possibly a UID problem. Have you opened a support ticket on this? Sounds like a bug. Are you using 4.1.2 ?

Thanks,
C