A Member Q&A article comparing
Verity K2 search and Google Search Appliance. We attempt to sort out the
differences between the two products and highlight some of the major issues
with a test that compares Google and Ultraseek searches of the Montague
Institute Web site with results from our A - Z index. Four members report
their experiences, and we conclude with a list of references.
This month's entries include articles on how law firms
are reinventing KM, ROI on metadata, "social tagging" at Infoworld,
and how "mash-ups" (homespun combinations of mainstream services)
are changing the Internet.
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.
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.
