In the pre-Internet days, users relied on indexes, tables of contents, databases, card catalogs, and annotated bibliographies to find information. These "legacy retrieval tools" worked reasonably well in the orderly system created by editors, publishers, and librarians, but they've been slow to appear on the Web. In this article we'll see how four different kinds of legacy tools implemented via a metadata repository can save time for both users and content managers on a well known Web site.
This month's entries include an excellent overview of Web 2.0 concepts and technologies, an article about negotiating with publishers for indexing rights, and a discussion of the four stages of enterprise architecture.
Paul Rosenberg, an intranet search specialist of a casualty insurance company discusses a pilot project to extract terms from Wordnet and make them available as synonyms within Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services 2007.
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.
A hands-on opportunity for a cross-functional team to create a prototype metadata repository and demonstrate its use in search and other navigation tools. See also courses
