Roundtable |
Bridging the gap between folksonomies
and taxonomies
May 17 , 2007 |
11:00 am - 2:00 pm (Eastern), 8:00 am - 11:00
am (Pacific) via teleconference
Is it possible to combine the creativity of "social tagging" with the
rigor of professional document indexing? In this teleconference roundtable,
Bradley Allen will do a joint presentation with Rafael Sidi of Elsevier Engineering Information about a system that lets metadata managers associate
author-generated keywords with terms in a controlled vocabulary and
lets users use the results for search.
FEATURED GUESTS
In this 3-hour teleconference roundtable, Mr. Allen and Mr. Sidi
will describe a pilot project in which RSS is used to import keywords generated
through a social tagging application into separately defined taxonomies using
either Dublin Core or SKOS. Users can then use either the "folksonomy" or the
controlled vocabulary — or
the combination — in
a search application.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This event is for experienced practitioners and is a fairly
technical topic. If you have limited familiarity with selecting and customizing
search engines, you can take the
pre-roundtable primer on May 16. 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 issues
that Bradley will address. Additional topics and questions
may be added by participants during the session.
• What the pros and cons of "folksonomies"
(i.e. social tagging systems) and traditional controlled vocabularies?
• What are the benefits of combining the two
approaches to classifying documents and images?
• What standards and processes are used to
harvest author-generated terms and combine them with controlled vocabulary
terms?
• How is the combined set of terms used by
a search engine?
• What are some user interface examples that
demonstrate how the concept of combining folksonomies with controlled
vocabularies can save time for knowledge workers?
• Have any formal studies been done to test
the concept in a variety of search scenarios, including those that
make use of automatic (computer-generated) categorization and clustering?
• What are the staffing and training implications
of combining folksonomies and search?
• What other work (i.e. pilot projects, case
studies, new products and services) is happening around the concept?
FORMAT
The format is teleconference. Participants will receive a list of attendees,
a password to access a list of members-only background articles on the
Montague Institute Web site, and a phone number to
join the teleconference.
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
May 17, 2007, 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.
December 31 , 2006 l Updated on
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