Companies show a surprising range of approaches to taxonomy development
and deployment, but the business case is pretty consistent -- improve
information retrieval, share knowledge, and reduce content production
costs. Because the approaches and applications are so varied, it's difficult
to obtain meaningful cost comparisons, even for companies in the same
industry. Results of an informal survey.
COURSES
Introduction to content management July 17 & 18, 2001 (Enfield, CT)
A vendor-neutral, hands-on introduction to the tools and techniques
of acquiring, organizing, and publishing information in print, Web, and
database formats. Take home a single-user license for our content
management prototyping software. Includes roundtable discussion, "Content
management strategies & ROI."
A vendor-neutral, hands-on introduction to the tools and techniques
of creating, maintaining, and deploying taxonomies in business applications. Take
home a single-user license for our content management prototyping software.
ROUNDTABLES
Taxonomy creation: man vs. machine May 16, 2001 (Bedford, MA)
When do you use software, when do you use manual methods in creating
a taxonomy?
Taxonomy applications June 20, 2001 (Enfield, CT)
What makes a taxonomy really useful when deployed in an application?
How do you determine user needs and assess the effectiveness of your taxonomy?
Content management strategies and ROI July 18, 2001 (Enfield, CT)
This roundtable will tackle some of the major issues facing content
managers: centralized vs decentralized, man vs. machine, how to measure
ROI.
REGULAR FEATURES Best of BUSLIB-L (collected
wisdom of the world's expert researchers)
"Language
comes alive: From spoken language to e-mail, Autonomy enables computer
understanding," (Upside, May, 2001) Interview with Michael Lynch,
Autonomy's managing director. Good explanation of how the software uses
probability to categorize and hyperlink articles.
