Roundtable |
Advanced taxonomy topics
December 4, 2001 |
Here's a chance to pick the brains of a recognized
expert with extensive experience in organizing information for corporate
intranets and developing classification-related products and services.
Joyce Ward, formerly VP of Classification and Editorial Services at Northern
Light, will share her experiences in this roundtable discussion, the second
in the "Advanced Taxonomy Topics" series.
This one-day event, sponsored by the Society
of Knowledge Base Publishers will be held at the Radisson Hotel in
Enfield, CT, on December 4, 2001. This is not a training session, but
an idea exchange for experienced practitioners and content managers.
Joyce will talk about how her team created the taxonomy
behind Northern Light's Custom Search Folders, and how she helped customize
taxonomies for Northern Light's corporate clients. She will also discuss
her prior experience in developing "bibliographic utilities"
at Digital Equipment Corporation and consulting with a variety of corporate
clients on information management issues.
DISCUSSION TOPICS
The actual agenda will be finalized by the participants, but suggested
topics include the following:
-- What are the most important lessons you've learned
in creating and maintaining taxonomies?
-- How can taxonomies help reduce "clutter"
in search results?
-- What are the pros and cons of using an external
vendor to create and maintain a corporate taxonomy?
-- In a "human-directed automatic classification
process," what tasks should humans do and what tasks should computers
do?
-- How many humans are really needed to maintain a
high quality taxonomy? Are there rules of thumb for how much to allocate
to the taxonomy function?
-- What are recommended best practices for integrating
internal and external content in a taxonomy?
-- How can companies get more value from the classification
capabilities of commercial content management systems? How much should
companies be spending to create and maintain the classification component
of these systems?
-- What taxonomy-related skills do employees need?
- FORMAT
- The session will begin at 9:00 am, break for a one-hour
eat-in lunch, and end at 4:00 pm.
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- The moderator will assist the group in finalizing
an agenda of discussion topics, invite comments and questions, and summarize
the discussion.
Everyone will receive contact information for all participants prior
to the session. After the session, they will receive a briefing covering
the major issues and summarizing the discussion.
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