I work for EDS and have a lot of experience with working with SharePoint and taxonomy and metadata management for the last 4-5 years. We have rolled out...
Although I don't have the years of experience with Sharepoint that Mike has, I have a few points to add regarding MOSS 2007. I've been using it intensively...
Hi Syed, I agree whole-heartedly with Matt about automatic categorization creating a mess, and, if I was in your position and seriously pursuing the...
Hi all - I know this is a bit off topic, but I think I've seen members post about their experiences in implementing systems to support Legal Departments or...
Hello, Iąd like to finally introduce myself to this list. I am the Digital Archivist for Disney Online at the Walt Disney Internet Group in Burbank,...
Hi Mary Ann, Welcome to the group. Are you attending the DAM conference in NY next week? That would be a good place to rsearch your interests. If there are...
Hi all - Are there any standard hierarchical groupings of countries that are commonly used in taxonomies? Any references that you can point out would be great....
I'd start with UN M.49 regions. Includes countries grouped to regions. Countries are mapped to their ISO 3166 alpha-code as well as UN number-code so then you...
Lee, I don't know about specific tagging systems, but XML combined with an indexing content repository offers some very interesting possibilities. I suggest...
Thanks for sharing these, Lisa. For the regional grouping of countries, though, the UN grouping apparently aim at being culturally neutral. Users, however, may...
Bill, My understanding is thar most companies are still in their old way of doing things. It would be great to use these tools if they are all XML structured ,...
Jay, I totally agree with you. The only concept of a document that most people still have is an inert pile of printed paper. The paradigm of the ponderously...
Some nice observations Heather. My own take would be to take one of the standards as a vocabulary for country names, but look to user needs and content...
Thanks everyone for your quick responses and insights! Lots to consider now. A bit more background, now that I've gotten some questions to consider: * My...
Lee, I think you will be OK. In the end, it will depend on how you process that metadata. You can have an interface or taxonomy specific to financial...
Hi Lee By 'document systems' do you mean document management systems or more general content repositories? Not that it matters for my answer though... (!) Over...
Hi Lee (again!) I put together a "Relevant Law" taxonomy for the law firm I was at last year (that just means jurisdictions or governing law) and I looked (and...
Hi all, I've been charged with figuring out which thesaurus to use for graphics on our web site. I think perhaps the Library of Congress Thesaurus of Graphic...
I am new to this list and am learning as much as I can about taxonomy development. I have an MLIS from San Jose State University with 2 projects in library...
... To allow flexibility, is there any way to allow contributors to allocate a geographical grouping to a piece of content but have the system break that down...
There is a new book out titled "Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness" By Patrick Lambe (Feb. 2007) Has anybody heard of...
Hi Linda, I had noticed the book, too. I have arranged to review it for Key Words, the bulletin of the American Society of Indexers, but I have yet to receive...
Hi All, A quick introduction and on to a question: I have been a freelance book indexer for the past 5 years and I have also been working for a PPC search...
Hi Heather, Linda My ears are burning! I'm collecting reviewer comments as I come across them, at the book's website www.organisingknowledge.com with links to...
Karen, Try this Select the list terms you need to sort Use the Table menu and click on Sort. This should do the job, if not, try copying to a seperate file to...
Hi All -- Unfortunately Word's sort feature does not eliminate initial articles, such as a, an and the. Word is a pretty complex piece of software, they could...
Lisa and group: We have not yet decided on a vendor, but Teragram is being considered. Since you are all Teragram users, I wanted to know if the Teragram ...
Cc-ing the Teragram User's Group in this response in case there are members whose affilitations do not cross over. You might want to join the Teragram User's...
