Metadata & Sharepoint in a multi-lingual environment
December 5, 2006
11:00 am - 2:00 pm (Eastern), 8:00 am - 11:00 am (Pacific)
via teleconference
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Marti Heyman has been involved in the design and use of controlled vocabularies in support of search engine effectiveness for the past 15 years. She is currently a partner with Phena Partners, LLC and is responsible for their KM practice. She earned both her MLIS and MBA degrees from Drexel University in Philadelphia. |
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Peter Doliska has been directly involved in the development, implementation and maintenance of a corporate taxonomy, including design requirements for portal environments. Currently Peter works with Agfa HealthCare on their global document management and collaboration initiative. Peter earned a MLIS degree from the University of Western Ontario in London. |
How do you use standardized terms in a global, multi-lingual
organization to enhance information retrieval? How do you interface a
corporate taxonomy with a collaboration application like Sharepoint?
In this roundtable, Marti Heyman and Peter Doliska,
recently with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, tell how they used a commercially
available metadata repository product to enhance retrieval functions
in a consensus-driven global organization of over 100,000 employees with
highly autonomous business units.
FEATURED GUESTS
In this 3-hour teleconference roundtable, Marti Heyman of Phena Partners
LLC and Peter Doliska of Agfa Healthcare, will describe how they helped to create
a corporate taxonomy using a metadata management tool, how they accommodated
an enterprise "official" vocabulary
as well as local variations in four different languages, and how they
interfaced terms and categories with a Sharepoint collaboration application.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This event is for experienced practitioners. If you have limited
familiarity with taxonomies, metadata repositories, or Sharepoint, you
can take the
pre-roundtable primer on December 4. Software
vendors and systems integrators are welcome to attend but only in their
role as practitioners. In other words, they must be willing to discuss
their own internal practices.
DISCUSSION TOPICS
The following is a preliminary list of questions
which Marti and Peter will answer. Additional topics and questions
may be added by participants during the session.
• What were your objectives for creating a
multi-lingual global taxonomy? How do multi-lingual taxonomies typically
handle "see" and "see also" references, full text searches, and topic
browse?
• Why did you decide to use a metadata repository,
and why did you select the tool you used? What other products did you
look at?
• How did you integrate local taxonomies and
synchronize them with global terms, categories, and content attributes?
• How did you deploy the taxonomy in applications
such as search, content management, and collaboration (i.e. Sharepoint)?
• How does the taxonomy appear to the user
in an A - Z index, search, or browse scenario?
• Do bi-lingual users approach search differently? If so, how should taxonomies be incorporated to serve their unique needs?
• How long did it take to create the taxonomy
and the Sharepoint interface? How many staff were involved, what were
their backgrounds, and what did they do?
• How did you "sell" the taxonomy project
and report measurable benefits?
• How did the taxonomy fit into the document
translation workflow?
FORMAT
The format uses Webex for video and teleconferencing
for the audio. If you aren't allowed
to install the Webex program on your computer, you can still participate.
Call for details.
COST
$400 per person (members), $650 per person
(nonmembers). Nonmembers who register for this roundtable automatically
become members of the Society of Knowledge
Base Publishers.
Additional people from the same team can attend
at a reduced rate of $325 (includes full Society membership).
DATE, TIME
December 5, 2006, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm (Eastern),
8:00 am - 11:00 am (Pacific)
REGISTRATION
To register, call (413) 367-0245. We can fax
a pro forma invoice, and we accept Mastercard, Visa, American Express,
Discover, and Diner's Club. We must receive payment at least 7 days
prior to the event.
Created on October 10, 2006 l Updated on
July 26, 2007
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