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Information modeling and metadata management An extensive revision of the fifth course in our Knowledge Base Publishing series.

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December 2004
ARTICLES
Why your CFO needs metadata management
Written for an audience of financial executives, Sandy Hostetter of Rohm and Haas discusses the role of metadata in dealing with the "transparency" problem as well as normalizing data for the past, present and future. The prime motivator at her company was reducing the cost of legal discovery, but she also discusses the metadata issues involved in mergers/acquisitions/divestitures and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
 
Topic map applications and implementation
What are Topic Maps and why are they being used in government, publishing, and business? How do you convert a taxonomy into a Topic Map? What are some examples of topic map applications? This Member Q&A article gives some answers, examples, and links.

NEW FEATURES
Knowledge Base Editor's Digest
An expanded version of the Montague Institute's A - Z index now includes items from the Digest as well as references cited in Montague Institute Review articles. This month's entries include articles on Wikis, balanced scorecard, and topic maps.
 
REGULAR FEATURES
Best of the Lists (including Best of BUSLIB-L)
Engineering information productivity tools
 
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.
ROUNDTABLES (see also the calendar listing)
KM collaboration within law firms (March 1, 2005)
Catherine Monte, Director of Knowledge Management, Fox, Rothschild, LLP, will be the featured guest. Offered in both face-to-face and teleconference format.
 
Semantic integration strategies (March 22, 2005)
Peter Brown, Head of the Information Resources Management Unit at the European Parliament, will be the featured guest. Offered in both face-to-face and teleconference format.
 
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 scheets, 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.