Members respond to a question about best practices
for using Dublin Core tags with search engines. Full
text available to Society members (how
to become a member).
REGULAR FEATURES
Best of BUSLIB-L(collected
wisdom of the world's expert researchers)
Introduction to content management July 30/31 (Enfield,
CT)
The seminar is a vendor-neutral introduction to
the tools and techniques of acquiring, organizing, and publishing information
in print, Web, and database formats. The emphasis is on the special
requirements of companies in chemistry-related companies, including
pharmaceuticals, high performance materials, and others.
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. Practicum
on the second day is a hands-on session where participants will create
taxonomy structures and applications.
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.
Practicum on the second day is a hands-on session where participants
will create taxonomy structures and applications.
A hands-on workshop where you will learn how to
use our relational database software for publishing material to public
and private Web sites, producing printed and indexed Briefings (reports),
creating a custom search function, and creating and maintaining Index
and Thesaurus functions. Includes a single user license for our Knowledge
Base software.
Taxonomies and search, September 30/October 1, 2002
(Enfield, CT)
A hands-on workshop where you will learn the theory
and practice of using taxonomies to improve the efficiency of a search
engine. Includes a single user license for our Knowledge Base software.
ROUNDTABLE
Taxonomy integration October 22, 2002 (Enfield,
CT)
An informal discussion of topics related to integrating
taxonomies from multiple industries, organizations, and business units.
Eileen Quam, manager for the Minnesota BRIDGES project linking environmental
information from multiple state agencies, will attend as a guest expert.
