UIE Virtual Seminar Presentation
New Ways to Think about Taxonomy:
The Role of Taxonomies in Your Organization
Seth Earley & Stephanie Lemieux
From Earley & Associates
Length: 90 Minutes
Price: $ 149.00 (includes handout)
Do your users like to search or browse? Everyone does both and a well-constructed taxonomy will greatly improve their success at finding their desired content and enhancing their discovery of the knowledge hidden deep in your site.
Implement your taxonomy well and it becomes the organizing principles that drive your metadata standards and your information architecture, and, when you're ready, your faceted search and your semantic search. A great taxonomy will even drive a successful Web 2.0 implementation and help you reduce costs in designing and deploying your site.
To help, we've asked Seth and Stephanie, experts in creating and maintaining sophisticated taxonomies, to broaden your thinking about how a taxonomy can make your life easier, whether you're designing a public-facing web site or a large-scale intranet. In this 90-minute online session, you'll see detailed examples of taxonomy applications and how to leverage key design principles across your organization. Stephanie and Seth will give you a better understanding of your own taxonomy and the navigation of your information. You'll get your content management system under control and improve your search results.
Ever have trouble explaining why a taxonomy is important to your colleagues at work? Seth and Stephanie will show you how. You will also hear three detailed case studies: Motorola, American Greetings, and The Urban Land Institute.
You’ll learn how:
- To use multiple taxonomies to describe different aspects for a piece of information
- To leverage your taxonomy when implementing asset search, attribute-based search, filtering, and dynamic content presentation
- To improve search applicability and improve both precision and recall when users are searching
- To create a unified approach that supports searching for known content and discovering new content
Watch this great sneak preview Seth & Stephanie put together for you:
Purchase this presentation today, so you can stop wrestling with the organization of information on your web site or intranet.
Instructor Biographies
Seth Earley, Earley & Associates
Seth has been implementing content management and knowledge management projects for over 14 years and has been in the technology field for 20 + years. He is founder of the Boston Knowledge Management Forum and co-author of Practical Knowledge Management from the IBM Press. He is former adjunct professor at Northeastern University, where he taught graduate courses in Knowledge Management Infrastructure and E Business Strategy.
Seth has developed search, content, and knowledge strategies for global organizations and has developed underlying taxonomies for a diverse roster of Fortune 1000 companies. He is a popular speaker and workshop leader at conferences throughout North America, speaking on intranet design, knowledge management, content management systems and strategy, taxonomy development, and other related topics.
Stephanie Lemieux, Earley & Associates
Stephanie has a Masters in Library and Information Studies (MLIS) from McGill University, specializing in knowledge and content management, taxonomy, and information architecture. For the past several years, she has been working on taxonomy & knowledge management contracts and research projects for a variety of clients. She has performed technical evaluations of a variety of tools, including automatic summarization & entity extraction, taxonomy management, and virtual collaboration tools.
Stephanie has recently completed a variety of projects, including the development of a global corporate taxonomy and its implementation in a content management system, the creation of an information architecture for two knowledge portals, the creation of a navigational taxonomy for a large e-commerce website, and an analysis of the use of linguistic analysis tools in thesaurus management.
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