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June 2001

ARTICLES 

"Taxonomy consultants" (abstract)
Based on interviews with Society members and their contacts, this article tells what taxonomy consultants do and where to find them.
 
2000 review, 2001 preview (full text)
What we did in 2000, what we plan for 2001.
 
COURSES 
Introduction to content management July 17, 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. 
 
Introduction to business taxonomies August 14, 2001 (Enfield, CT)
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
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.
 
Taxonomy creation: man vs. machine August 15, 2001 (Enfield, CT)
How do auto-classification programs work? When should you use humans and when should you use software to create a taxonomy?
 
Advanced taxonomy roundtable September 10, 2001 (Enfield, CT)
Denise Bedford, Information Officer & Thesaurus Coordinator at the World Bank, will share her extensive experience in using a variety of taxonomy tools. Jean Graef of the Montague Institute will share her experiences in using Inktomi's Content Classification Engine (CCE) and Watchfire's Metabot.
 
REGULAR FEATURES
Best of BUSLIB-L (collected wisdom of the world's expert researchers)
 
Digest: Managing intellectual assets 
Annotated links to articles and Web sites. 
"Behind the scenes, XML sizzles," (KMWorld, May, 2001) Overview article includes pros and cons, links to related standards.
 
Top 20 articles
Links to the 20 most popular articles on this site based on last month's server statistics.