On June 22, Society members
from the U. S., the U.K., and Canada met to discuss how they create, manage,
maintain, and integrate metadata for multiple information systems. We
asked Denise Bedford, Senior Information Officer of the World Bank Group,
to describe her experiences and respond to questions. This article summarizes
her presentation and the ensuing discussion.
This month's entries include articles on how mass
collaboration is changing the business environment, collaborative citizen
journalism, and 6 trends affecting the information explosion.
In 1992, DuPont decided to revamp its relationships
with suppliers of legal services. The result was the DuPont Legal Model,
a collaborative network of DuPont's primary law firms, service providers,
and consultants. In 2003 alone, the model was credited with saving DuPont
$33.8 million. Julie Mazza, Director of Legal Expense Control at Citigroup
(formerly DuPont's Manager of Law Firm Partnering), will tell us how it
works and why other large firms are adopting it.
Members get-together September 13, 2005 (Enfield,
CT)
Get acquainted with other Society members and brainstorm
ideas that will shape the future of the information disciplines. Registration
is free, but we ask that you contribute one idea or topic for the agenda.
A hands-on course that shows you how to develop,
evaluate, and use information models and metadata management tools.
Models and tools include ontologies, topic maps, thesauri, metadata
repositories, crosswalks and metadata maps, XML schema and style sheets,
and application interfaces.
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.
