Montague Institute Review January 2007


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January 2007

ARTICLES
Best practices for search systems (abstract)

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.

DIGEST

Knowledge Base Editor's Digest

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.

ROUNDTABLES & SEMINARS

Pre-roundtable primer: Collaboration & innovation. (March 27, 2007 via teleconference)

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.

Collaboration tools & innovation. (March 28, 2007 via teleconference)

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.

Pre-roundtable primer: Tagging strategies . (May 16, 2007 via teleconference)

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.

Bridging the gap between folksonomies and taxonomies. (May 17, 2007 via teleconference)

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.

REGULAR FEATURES

Best of the Lists (collected wisdom of the world's information experts)

Best business blogs (update)

How to get the most from our Web site (tutorial)

17 slides that contain an overview of our content and tips on how to use it.