This informal Member Q&A survey shows that most
taxonomists reside in the IT function, but there's a wide variation
in job titles, scope of influence, and responsibilities.
Nearly all graduate level programs offer the
option for an independent study, practicum, or field experience. Montague
Institute courses fit into any of these categories for degrees in information
management, knowledge management, and similar interdisciplinary programs.
This month's entries include articles on "document
engineering," a new human-assisted search engine, and tips for
evaluating search performance from the user's point of view.
Dr. Marcia Kerchner of MITRE Corporation will tell
how the IRS improved the user search experience through usability studies,
document engineering, query enhancement, and results improvement.
This teleconference is designed as a backgrounder
for the September 5 roundtable "Migrating
metadata to the Semantic Web." Its purpose is to orient you
to the roundtable context and help you understand the concepts and tools
discussed. This session takes a big-picture view of the topic and is
designed for the layman, not the computer scientist.
Barbara McGlamery of Time Interactive will tell
how her team used a Semantic Web standard called RDF (Resource Description
Framework) to add new kinds of relationships to enhance search and navigation
on the Entertainment Weekly
Web site.
This teleconference is designed as a backgrounder
for the October 17 roundtable "Integrating
folksonomies with Google."
Its purpose is to orient you to the roundtable context and help you
understand the concepts and tools discussed. This session takes a big-picture
view of the topic and is designed for the layman, not professional indexers
or taxonomists.
Rich Hoeg of Honeywell will tell how his organization
is using a product called ConnectBeam to allow engineers to tag articles
they find via searches conducted using the Google Search Appliance.
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