It's beginning to look like Web Services, a new
standard for allowing programs to exchange data, will do for Internet
transactions what the World Wide Web did for Internet publishing --
remove barriers created by incompatible hardware, software, and telecommunications
systems. A mini-tutorial, this article includes a description of our
own experience with Web Services as well as links to other sources of
information.
A vendor-neutral introduction to the benefits, tools,
and techniques of integrating taxonomies. By "integration"
we mean bridging the gaps between disciplines and cultures as well as
making taxonomies available to navigation tools, incorporating them
into business applications, and including them in editorial work flow.
Includes a single-user license for our taxonomy database software.
Taxonomies and search, November 5/6, 2002 (Enfield,
CT)
A hands-on workshop where you will learn tools,
techniques, and strategies for using taxonomies to improve web site
navigation. Includes a discussion of our recent experiences with the
Inktomi Content Classification Engine and the Quiver auto-classification
program.
A vendor-neutral introduction to the tools and techniques
of creating, maintaining, and deploying taxonomies in business applications.
Includes a single-user license for our taxonomy database software. Practicum
on the second day is a hands-on session where participants will create
taxonomy structures and applications.
Advanced business taxonomies, February 10/11, 2003
(Washington, DC), December 3/4, 2002 (Sun
University, Santa Clara, CA)
For people already familiar with the basics of business
taxonomies, this vendor-neutral workshop focuses on such advanced topics
as the metadata warehouse, centralization/decentralization strategies,
the role of metadata in the firm's information architecture, in-depth
look at various tools, and how to develop a "digital availability"
model. Includes a single user license for our taxonomy database tool.
Practicum on the second day is a hands-on session where participants
will create taxonomy structures and applications.
ROUNDTABLES
Taxonomy integration October 22, 2002 (Enfield,
CT), November 14 (Seattle, WA)
An informal discussion of topics related to integrating
taxonomies from multiple industries, organizations, and business units.
Eileen Quam, manager for the Minnesota BRIDGES project linking environmental
information from multiple state agencies, will attend as a guest expert
in the Connecticut session. Mike Crandall, a member of the Dublin Core
Metadata Initiative Advisory Board, will be the guest expert at the
Seattle session.
Sustaining business taxonomies December 5, 2002
(Santa Clara, CA)
Discussion of issues relating to maintaining and
sustaining taxonomies to reflect a constantly changing business and
technical environment.
