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Welcome Clint - you'll find over time that there are many species of taxonomist lurking here! P Patrick Lambe weblog: www.greenchameleon.com website:...
Patrick Lambe
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Hi, Ron, I am unfamiliar with the AIIM IOA courses, but I know Taxo Boot Camp is good. To complicate your decision, though, be aware that Taxo Boot Camp is on...
Alice Redmond-Neal
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Hi, Brenda, I share your pain, and I wish I had a simple answer. In addition to the inconsistency about who uses acronyms at all and who uses which acronyms is...
Alice Redmond-Neal
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Hello Clint - welcome to the group. I'm a fellow lurker and believe I'm involved in work similar to yours. I'm wondering how many others in this group are...
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Just to add to what others have said I will add our experience. We have a world wide company of 100,000 folk so trying to maintain consistency of terminology...
Gardner, Mike
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Just chiming in that I too am involved primarily in product taxonomies for a website that allows user discovery of engineering products.My organization...
Julie Vittengl
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It becomes even more difficult when trying to balance multiple retailers. What I have found is that retailer A calls a product feature/style 'x' while...
Clint
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Brenda, There have been some very good points raised here in this discussion on acronym use within a thesaurus. For several years, I worked on a large ...
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On the subject of workshops and courses on taxonomies, I give one through the continuing education program of Simmons College Graduate School of Library and...
Heather Hedden
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Thanks so much Ahren, Mike, Alice, and Layne for sharing your process for managing acronyms. It sounds like the right thing to do would be to keep the...
Brenda Darrah
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Hi. My name is Fran and I live and work in Israel. We have recently switched over to a new Documentation Management System in our company. I have been...
Fran
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Hi Fran -- The tutorials and system online at the site below may be of interest. Hope this helps, -- Adrian Internet Business Logic A Wiki and SOA...
Adrian Walker
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Fran: The American Institute for Information Management (AIIM) has on-line courses ( <http://www.aiim.org> www.aiim.org) in various tracks including one on ...
David Bromberg
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Hello, Allow me to de-lurk, introduce myself and comment on this thread. I am Kristina Aston, Metadata Team Lead and Information Architect at Agriculture and...
Kristina
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Aug 6, 2008
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When I mentioned that we were reconciling acronyms in search and not cluttering the index in my previous post I was referring to synonym rings in the search...
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Hi Brenda, Don¹t know if you¹ve found your answer to this but I figured I¹d chime in... I don¹t know if this will help or not but I¹ve found that there...
Frank Guerino
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Aug 7, 2008
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As a technical writer, I often encounter issues of terminology, of finding information, of storing and categorizing information, and so forth. Can anyone talk...
Jay Maechtlen
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Aug 9, 2008
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Brenda - ... Acronyms are indeed a challenge. As an exploratory exercise I built a tiny "dictionary" with 2,000 "terms" (I make no distinction between word,...
David Eddy
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Bernda - In my acronyms dictionary, "cc" was the volume winner, with 298 different (hopefully... I've not bothered to look) meanings. - David...
David Eddy
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We've done this by creating an editorial and usage guide that goes along with taxonomy deliverables. Naming conventions within the narrative of technical...
Seth Earley
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I'd also like to recommend Eliot Kimber's series of weblog postings on Content Management Systems. Vendors make such different sets of claims that it's...
DuCharme, Bob
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Aug 11, 2008
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Ron - Full disclosure, I work for AIIM (joined in June 2007) although I'm in the Market Intelligence (analyst/research) area, not directly in training per se. ...
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Hi everyone, I have recently been appointed as the Information Architect at Ergon Energy, Queensland, Australia. This is a new role for the organisation (and...
Jann Cunningham
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Hello Everyone, I just joined the group. Working at a community bank I've grown into the role of IA/BA with a background in web design/development. We're in...
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I attended the Taxonomy bootcamp 2 years ago and found it a complete waste of time and money.  AIIM goes into much more detail for less money. Doug Glass,...
doug glass
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I have not attended any of the AIIM courses but have presented at Taxonomy Boot Camp for the past few years. One thing to keep in mind is that these are two...
Seth Earley
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I attended Taxonomy Bootcamp last year and found it excellent, both in terms of the content and the participants. For full disclosure, I was speaking at it so...
Patrick Lambe
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I have never attended Taxonomy Bootcamp, but our firm has sent people for the last 2 years. Based on their feedback, I would have to echo Patrick's comments....
Doug Schultz
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Aug 14, 2008
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International Workshop on Integrating Taxonomies and Folksonomies for Enhanced Knowledge Navigation (ITFEKN 2008) Yokohama, Japan 21 November 2008 Workshop...
CCKiu
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Aug 20, 2008
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Hello everyone-- I'm new to the group and am currently an underemployed librarian living in Oregon. In an effort to expand my career horizons, I've recently...
mholte
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