Expertise databases sound like a good idea, but in the real world they are often not used because people don't update them. Here are some comments about what works and what doesn't for finding expertise and know-how.
This month's entries include articles by Jon Udell, Esther Dysan, and Tim O'Reilly about Freebase, best described as a collaborative database with a Semantic Web infrastructure.
This teleconference is designed as a backgrounder
for the September 5 roundtable "Migrating
metadata to the Semantic Web" and the November 7 roundtable "Six weeks 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.
Christine Connors of Intuit and Kevin Lynch of Raytheon describe a 6 week pilot project on expertise location to show the power of the Semantic Web in a business environment.
This teleconference is
designed as a backgrounder for the December 12 roundtable "Benchmarking Sharepoint for KM." Its purpose is to
orient you to the roundtable context and help you understand the concepts
and tools discussed.
Paul Rehmet of Unisys will share the results of a detailed technology evaluation of Google, Microsoft SharePoint 2007, and other vendors for enterprise search.
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