In many cases, taxonomies
are an after-thought, added to applications to supply the necessary metadata
or grafted onto Web sites to bring order to the intranet chaos. But user-driven
taxonomy development is already happening, as indicated by the growing
popularity of "social tagging." In this article we look at how
the changing needs of Montague Institute staff, members, and course participants
have driven the development of taxonomies and navigation tools.
This month's entries include a tutorial on enterprise
information integration, an explanation of why trusted information advisors
are more important than ever, and why the increased emphasis on collaboration
is lengthening the time knowledge workers spend on the job.
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. DuPont Legal's Paralegal Manager and IT Manager will share
the nuts and bolts of their experiences with us via teleconference.
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.
