One member asks, "How do we position ourselves
against Google, which is in essence, anti-classification/taxonomy? Or
do we embrace it, and if so, how?" As we show in this article,
there are times when Google works well. But because it's ubiquitous
and deceptively easy to use, Google creates unrealistic expectations
and fosters an over-simplified model of information work.
An expanded version of the Montague Institute's
A - Z index now includes items from the Digest as well as references
cited in Montague Institute Review articles.
This month's entries include articles on usability
testing, information integration on the desktop, and trends in legal
knowledge management.
Peter Brown, Head of the Information Resources Management
Unit at the European
Parliament, will be the featured guest. Offered in both face-to-face
and teleconference format.
Metadata, compliance, and the bottom line (April
26, 2005)
In this roundtable, Sandy Hostetter of Rohm and
Haas tells how the program she manages — Electronic Content Management
and Retention — is helping to lower the cost of legal discovery
and produce higher quality financial reports through better metadata
management and a common data architecture. See also "Why
your CFO needs metadata management."
A hands-on course that shows you how to develop,
evaluate, and use information models and metadata management tools.
Models and tools include ontologies, topic maps, thesauri, metadata
repositories, crosswalks and metadata maps, XML schema and style sheets,
application interfaces.
A hands-on course that covers the fundamentals of
business taxonomies: how to do a needs analysis, create a controlled
vocabulary, develop a thesaurus, and use taxonomy components in navigation.
Includes personalized assistance from our instructors and supervised
work on a real project in the Web-based Lab.
A hands-on course that covers the creation and use
of authorities as well as the development of two independent thesauri
that are linked through cross references. Includes personalized assistance
from our instructors and supervised work on a real project in the Web-based
Lab.
