ARTICLES
"Adobe Acrobat 5: The Swiss Army Knife of Knowledge Base Publishing" (abstract)

If we had to select a single tool for adding value to documents on the desktop, it would be Adobe Acrobat 5. Like the Swiss Army Knife, it can perform an amazing variety of practical tasks in the trenches, where readers actually use, manipulate, archive, and share content.

 

Member Q&A (abstract)

Society members respond to four queries: metadata standards, the information life cycle, the value of information, and the Vivisimo program.

 

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

Sources for market research

 

Digest: Managing intellectual assets

Annotated links to articles and Web sites. 

 

Top 20 articles

Links to the 20 most popular articles from the Montague Institute Review.

 

COURSES 
Advanced taxonomies seminar May 7, 2002 (Enfield, CT)

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)