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December 2002

Creating and using business taxonomies
Web-based course
A vendor-neutral introduction to the tools and techniques of creating, maintaining, and deploying taxonomies in business applications. Includes Web-based text, references, examples, and accessto a private work area in our Taxonomy Lab.
ARTICLES
2002 review, 2003 preview (full text, PDF)
Highlights of the themes we pursued and the events we conducted in 2002 along with plans for 2003.
 
REGULAR FEATURES
Best of BUSLIB-L (the collected wisdom of the world's expert researchers)
Management book summaries
 
Digest: Managing intellectual assets
Annotated links to current articles and interesting Web sites. 
 
Free articles
Links to the full text articles available on our public Web site. 
 
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.
 
SEMINARS (see also the calendar listing)
Introduction to business taxonomies January 13/14, 2003 (Washington, DC)
A vendor-neutral introduction to the tools and techniques of creating, maintaining, and deploying taxonomies in business applications.
 
Advanced business taxonomies, February 10/11, 2003 (Washington, DC)
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 access to our Web-based Taxonomy Lab.
 
Taxonomy integration March 17/18, 2003 (Washington, DC)
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 access to our Web-based Taxonomy Lab.
 
ROUNDTABLES
"New ways of adding value" January 23, 2003 (virtual roundtable)
Jean Graef, Montague Institute founder, will share her thoughts and faciliate a discussion on new ways to add value with information services in the current economic climate.
 
"Case study: an ISO 9001-compatible taxonomy" February 20, 2003 (virtual roundtable)
Margaret Campbell of Siemens will discuss how her team created a product-process-project taxonomy.
 
Call (413) 367-0245 to register or get more information for either of these roundtables.