Eileen Quam, Information Architect for the State
of Minnesota North Star portal, describes how she created a taxonomy
to integrate information from 13 state agencies using the Inktomi CCE
product.
REGULAR FEATURES
Best of BUSLIB-L
(the collected wisdom of the world's expert researchers)
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.
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.
ROUNDTABLES
Taxonomy integration: standards November 14, 2002
(virtual roundtable)
An informal discussion of topics related to integrating
taxonomies from multiple industries, organizations, and business units.
Mike Crandall, a member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Advisory
Board, will report on the recent Dublin Core workshop in Florence, Italy.
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.
