Hi friends. A Corporate Taxonomist position has just been posted at The Walt Disney Company: https://disney.recruitmax.com//main/careerportal/Job_Profile.cfm?...
Hi all, This is a bit of an entry level position, but the content and tools are interesting and there are opportunities for advancement. If you know anyone,...
Hi all - I've recently been pondering one possible use of our taxonomy to help users of search to get more directly to their desired targets. Specifically -...
At Weyerhaeuser we implemented Best Bets on our intranet search. These best bets are hand selected documents or main pages that are returned as search results...
Trish and Lee, Based on what you¹ve described, it sounds like you¹re probably where we were about 4 or 5 years ago. We decided we wanted to go a little...
Lee We don't do this for enterprise search but I know people who have tried to do this for smaller search collections (e.g., automatically open up the travel...
The 8th Annual Documentation and Training Conference held for the first time on the west coast in beautiful downtown Vancouver, BC. This year, we focus on the...
The 28th McMaster World Congress is approaching fast!!! 28th McMaster World Congress January 24-26, 2007 Hamilton Convention Centre Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ...
I would say that sending a blind link with no explanation would qualify as an example of spamming the list. . (The link also happens to lead to a blank...
Hi, Lee, Two items for your consideration. 1--On the SLA.org website, if you search "thesaurus", you get two different results sets. The first is mediated by...
Hi everyone, I've volunteered to start a new Podcast on IT Conversations - it's going to be called BookIT. A Podcast that will feature discussions with...
Join us for this month's Taxonomy Community of Practice conference call: Integrating your taxonomy project with other enterprise initiatives. Date & Time:...
Hi there, I've looked at the Mitre Onomi presentations and pdfs and the dogear pdfs and one thing I'm having problems with regards to Social Bookmarking in the...
Pete, with BibSonomy bookmarks are either: 1 Private, or shared with 2 Friends, or 3 Public See: http://www.bibsonomy.org/tag/bibsonomy Some of the listed...
Hi there, Say I'm in HR and am always referencing the secure HR website which contains confidential policy documents. Then this cool bookmarking tool is...
Pete - I don't have any specific experiences to share, but a few observations: 1. The problem you're describing can happen in many guises. One obvious one is...
Hello TaxoCoPs, Happy New Year! I'm new to the group today and wanted to send the requested intro. I work in multilingual enterprise technology systems ...
Welcome Bev. Thanks for the introduction. That's a very interesting area of focus. I am curious. How do your clients deal with multi lingual taxonomies from...
Seth, The standard answer is "fudging". A taxonomy within a single organisation faces the same challenges that any attempts at global standardisation face. And...
Yes, we mostly see (and recommend) this kind of approach. I was curious about how organizations that do go through the time and cost of translating and...
I remember a presentation by Denise Bedford where she discussed how the World Bank created and uses their multilingual thesaurus. It might make a good TaxoCop...
Great discussion. At Wand Inc, the pre-built taxonomies are translated into 11 languages. The translation work was done in two ways: 1) First, the English...
me too! I took part in a montague roundtable to see Denise's presentation (must be 18 months ago now?) and it revolutionised my thinking at the time. More...
Hi -- i follow taxonomies for Gartner (one of the things i do) and joined this group to get a sense of what people are looking at, what state of taxonomy...
Welcome Rita. What are the things you are most interested in with regard to taxonomy? What other areas do you focus on at Gartner? If you have some specific...
thanks for the welcome and your questions, Seth. regarding taxonomies: are more companies buying rather than building their own taxonomies? If they do buy...
Good questions. We could write an article (or research report ;-) ) about this topic. Are more companies buying rather than building their own taxonomies? Do...
thanks for the answers, Seth. appreciate your taking the time. -- rita Rita E. Knox, Ph.D. | VP & Research Director | Information Infrastructure | Gartner ...
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