Should teams responsible for enterprise search tap
the expertise of taxonomy specialists? This Member Q&A article summarizes
responses from members and suggests reasons why the answer may not always
be obvious.
Annotated links to current articles and interesting
Web sites. This month's entry is an article about IDEO and its
impact on the corporate innovation process.
Lecture-demo plus hands-on activities — create
an RSS news feed, a Dublin Core metadata generator for Dreamweaver,
metadata HTML extractor, metadata management spreadsheet tool, a Microsft
Word metadata template, a search engine thesaurus, and a Web log analytical
tool.
Knowledge base editing retreat November 8 - 12 (Amherst,
MA)
Five days of hands-on activities covering 5 topics
— trends, creating quality content, basic taxonomies, advanced
taxonomies, application integration.
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.
