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Introduction to Knowledge Base Publishing New Web-based course, the first in our Knowledge Base Publishing series.

Metadata tools and management New seminar now available in Web and face-to-face format.

2004-2005 Catalog contains new Custom Services and Professional Opportunities

Bookstore List of our favorite books with links to reviews, related articles, and course material.

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October 2004
ARTICLES
Federated searching Responses to a Member Q&A question about specifications for federated search tools and how to integrate taxonomies into search results.
 
Organizing knowledge: a hands-on approach How people respond to a hands-on, project-oriented learning experience in creating business taxonomies.
REGULAR FEATURES
Best of the Lists (formerly Best of BUSLIB-L)
Regional dictionaries
 
Digest: Managing intellectual assets
Annotated links to current articles and interesting Web sites. This month's entry is a presentation about metasearching (federated search).
 
How to get the most from our Web site (tutorial)
An overview of our content and tips on how to use it.
 
Top 20 articles
Links to the 20 most popular articles on this site based on last month's server statistics.
 
SEMINARS (see also the calendar listing)
Knowledge base editing retreat November 8 - 12 (Amherst, MA)
Five days of hands-on activities covering 5 topics — trends, creating quality content, basic taxonomies, advanced taxonomies, application integration.
Creating and using business taxonomies any time (Web-based course)
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.
 
Integrating taxonomies any time (Web-based course)
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.