This Web course gives TWO
PEOPLE one-on-one assistance in developing a strategy for
integrating multiple taxonomies — both internal and external.
By "integration" we mean bridging the conceptual 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. For an example and demo,
see "Linguistic tools for
knowledge discovery."
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
At the end of the course, you should be able to:
create two taxonomies (controlled vocabulary
+ thesaurus) for each of two domains;
map terms from one taxonomy to related terms in
the second taxonomy;
create a metadata repository for standardized names
and use it to create thesaurus terms;
create navigation tools that bridge two domains
— e.g. topic hierarchy, lists, A - Z index with cross references.
WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE This course is designed for Web site publishers, content owners, knowledge
managers, technical writers, e-commerce managers, editors and others who
want to learn how to define the requirements for increasing information
productivity. We recommend that an interdisciplinary team
of two to four people take the course together.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS You'll need Internet access and a Web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer
4 or later, Netscape 5 or later).
COURSE FORMAT The course is conducted via teleconference,
e-mail, and the Web.
COURSE OUTLINE
Section 1: Review of taxonomy basic concepts
Section 2: Conceptual integration
How to define domain boundaries
How to integrate domains
How to create and use thesauri and authority files
The role of content creation and structured writing
Section 3: Structural integration
Ontologies
Repositories
Metadata
Standards and collaborative development
Section 4: Applications
Sources of metadata for applications
Search and navigation
Portals & e-commerce
Print and electronic publishing
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Lab
The course requires you to select a project and gather Lab data
for a real-world application. To save time, most data can be imported
via Excel worksheets. The instructor will help you select and define
your project, assemble required data, and assist you in using a
private, passworded work area in the Web-based
Lab. Communication with the instructor is via phone and e-mail.
At the conclusion of the course, the instructor
will help you identify lessons learned. Your Lab data can be exported
and saved as an Excel file. After exporting, it will be permanently
deleted from our server unless you arrange for long term hosting.
You have 60 days to complete the Lab portion of the course.
You can contract for a custom, hosted version
of the Lab as well as a custom version to install on your own server.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jean Graef is a "boundary spanner"
with an interdisciplinary background as a manager, entrepreneur, librarian,
programmer, and journalist. She has been developing and conducting seminars
on cutting edge information topics since the early 1980's.
DATE & TIME You can start the Web course at any time and proceed at your own pace.
You do not have to wait for a class to form. The amount of work involved
is roughly equivalent to a semester's course at the graduate level. Most
people can complete the course in three to six months. To minimize the
time commitment without compromising the educational experience, you can:
take the course as an interdisciplinary team;
narrow the scope of your Lab project;
extract data from existing corporate systems when
possible;
submit Lab data on Excel worksheets for importing
instead of manually entering Lab data;
INSTRUCTIONAL OPTIONS This course can be taught by one of our
instructors on site at your facility (minimum 6 participants) or you can
become licensed to teach the course as a Montague
Fellow in Knowledge Base Publishing.
PREREQUISITES We highly recommend that you take the Knowledge
Domain Analysis course prior to taking Organizing Images. The Domain
Analysis course will help you create a Lab project with more business
impact, reduce the time needed to complete the Organizing Images course
requirements, and double the amount of both instructor and Lab time available
to you.
COST $5,500 for two people (nonmembers), $5,000 for
two people (members of the Society of Knowledge
Base Publishers). Course fee includes Lab access for 120 days and
up to 4 hours assistance via phone and/or e-mail from the instructor.
HOW TO REGISTER Call (423) 968-5584 to request a pro forma invoice
or provide a credit card number (we accept Visa, MasterCard, American
Express, Diners Club, and Discover).
Created on July 15, 2002 |
Modified on
October 24, 2008
