What do you say when someone asks why the terms
in the corporate taxonomy don't match those used on the Public Web site?
Learn why in this article about creating, maintaining, and deploying multiple taxonomies.
This month's entries include a blog entry on why Web 2.0 technologies can be disruptive in corporations, an article on folksonomies in libraries and elsewhere, and a library of user interface elements on the Web.
Jean Graef of the Montague Institute will give a primer on the why, what, and how of mashups. Then Qin Zhu of HP Labs will describe an expertise mashup that combines a list of technical reports with data from the company employee directory.
Jean Graef of the Montague Institute will show how concepts from everyday life and real-world demos can be used to communicate taxonomy value. Then Jie-Hong Morrison of Computer Technologies Consultants and Luigi Canali of Canali, Inc. will show examples of successful demonstrations they've used in a multi-year search project for an Executive Branch federal agency.
Julia Daniel, taxonomist for the General Motors Media Archive, will describe how they manage the taxonomies of multiple media collections with metadata in English and German.
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