Denise Bedford describes search-related best practices used at the World Bank. The article includes best practice examples for simple search and thesaurus management as well as a checklist used to see whether a specific search system is in compliance.
This month's entries include an extensive tutorial on how to create a faceted taxonomy, a Fortune magazine article on 3-D virtual worlds (the NEXT BIG THING?), and a review of four enterprise-grade wiki products.
For those having little experience with collaboration
tools in a corporate environment. Includes an overview of collaboration
technologies, the economics of using collaboration to promote innovation,
and the role IT can play in innovation.
Brian Gorman, leader of Intel's Advanced Collaboration
and Innovation research team, describes a pilot project to use blogs,
wikis, and other collaboration tools to foster innovation.
For those having little experience with tagging in a corporate environment. Includes an overview of tagging strategies, how to store terms and categories,
and how to merge, map, and transfer terms.
Bradley Allen describes a pilot project with one of Siderean's customers that will integrate author-generated tags (a "folksonomy") with controlled vocabularies created by professional catalogers or indexers.
Links to the 20 most popular articles on this site
based on last month's server statistics.
KNOWLEDGE BASE PROTOTYPING PROJECTS The following courses in the Knowledge
Base Publishing series can be taken on site or over the Web with individual
mentoring and a hands-on Lab.
