ARTICLES
"What is architecture? Why it's important" (abstract)

In this article, we describe the concept of architecture and show how it impacts the cost effectiveness of publishing and information retrieval. We draw on ten years of our own experience from 1992 to the present, and describe the evolution of our architecture during three major web site upgrades. Includes interviews with two Society members whose jobs involve working with architectures.

 

Comments on search engines (abstract)

Four Society members comment on their experiences with the Inktomi and Verity K2 search engines.

 

REGULAR FEATURES
Best of BUSLIB-L (collected wisdom of the world's expert researchers)

How to find earnings surprises

Work-related Internet use

 

Digest: Managing intellectual assets

Annotated links to articles and Web sites. 

 

Top 20 articles

Links to the 20 most popular articles on this site based on last month's server statistics.

 

COURSES 
Advanced taxonomies seminar March 18, 2002 (Washington, DC)

For people already familiar with the basics of business taxonomies, this vendor-neutral workshop focuses on such advanced topics as the metadata warehouse, centralization/decentralization strategies, the role of metadata in the firm's information architecture, in-depth look at various tools, and how to develop a "digital availability" model. Includes a single user license for our taxonomy database tool. Montague Institute Fellow Denise Bedford will teach the session.

 

Content management from top to bottom March 26, 2002 (Enfield, CT)

This vendor-neutral workshop approaches content management from both the system designer's and the user's point of view. The session explores how to increase productivity at the individual or team level -- with or without an enterprise CM system -- by adopting sound research and editorial principles, getting the most from ubiquitous desktop software, and using a database instead of custom programming to tie it all together. Includes a single-user license for our content management database software.

 

Introduction to business taxonomies April 23, 2002 (Enfield, CT)

A vendor-neutral introduction to the tools and techniques of creating, maintaining, and deploying taxonomies in business applications. Includes a single-user license for our taxonomy database software.

ROUNDTABLES
Advanced taxonomy topics March 19, 2002 (Washington, DC)

Content management strategies March 27, 2002 (Enfield, CT)

Adding value with taxonomy April 24, 2002 (Enfield, CT)