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The dollars and sense of KM: the DuPont Legal Model November 17, 2005 (teleconference)

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October 2005


ARTICLES
A taxonomy for the Homeland Security Digital Library
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.
DIGEST
Knowledge Base Editor's Digest
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.
 
REGULAR FEATURES
Best of the Lists (including Best of BUSLIB-L)
Selecting a federated search system
 
How to get the most from our Web site (tutorial)
17 slides that contain 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.
 
ROUNDTABLES
The dollars and sense of KM: the DuPont Legal Model November 17, 2005 (teleconference)
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.
 
COURSES (see also the calendar listing)
 
Information modeling and metadata management any time (Web-based course)
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.
 
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.