Society member Angela Pitts tells how her team at
the Naval Postgraduate School created an interdisciplinary taxonomy for
the new Homeland Security Digital Library using Teragram's auto-categorization
software and the FAST search engine. Includes Q & A with Jean Graef.
This month's entries include an introduction to AJAX
(Asynchronous Javascript and XML), an article on the role of metadata
and compliance, and a description of the Materials Pooling Project, a
consortium whose aim is to use the combined purchasing power of its members
to obtain non-toxic and environmentally friendly materials.
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, but it also has significant benefits to DuPont's legal
suppliers. Montague Institute founder Jean Graef will provide an overview
of the model and share the results of her interviews with members of DuPont's
Primary Law Firms. Maybeth Davies and Pam Martin, both on the staff of
the DuPont Legal Model, will discuss the nuts and bolts of how the program
affects paralegals and IT systems.
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.
