I was wondering if anyone has any examples of digital libraries that employ the ability to browse by subject area or other through tabs. I know I've seen a...
Just a reminder, if anybody is interested in dinner in Miami on Sunday at the IA Summit, please let me know so we know how many to expect. I propose meeting at...
Hello, I am building a bpm capability in my current consulting engagement and am intrigued by the intro and previews in Jan Dietz's book "Enterprise Ontology"....
Hi Andrew, I have not seen the book "Enterprise Ontology" so I am not really answering your question. However, there is another process-oriented ontology...
Hi Paolina, I am looking for a similar Process classification framework for health and human services domain in a government setting. Do you think I can use...
Paolina - Interesting that you should bring that up. I know that IBM's process modelling group was very keen on the APQC framework (I see that they provided...
Thanks Paolina, I've seen the APQC framework and it's great as far as a taxonomy of 'process' goes. I'm looking for a little more than that. I need to fill in...
Andrew, I think it depends what you want to do with your BPM work. On the one hand you have a strategic view of an organisation and then you can go right down...
Hi Matt, Thank you for your input. I am working on a new state government project and we have to develop as-is and to-be business process for welfare...
The computers not only write the books -- but they generate the index for each. The books can be efficiently printed one at a time. From an article in today's...
Hello all - I've been lurking while I've been settling into my now 10 month old position, co-heading the Market Intelligence unit of AIIM.org (The Non-Profit...
Hello all! These conferences are a month or two out, but I'm finding my schedule filling up, and I'd love to be able to connect or re-connect with many of you!...
Christine's post below reminded me that we have always offered TaxoCop members a discount on SemTech attendance, and I have neglected to post it thus far...so,...
Hi Andrew and Syed, I am not an authority on taxonomies but just for the joy of it - : ) - I have a couple of views to share - The first is that you might...
Thanks Matt, that's exactly what I want to do. Have a strategic view and drill right down close to the BPMN level. It's not clear whether we could maintain...
Thanks Paolina, When you ask ' is it to be by process (business functions, activities ), by people (org structures, communities, stakeholders, vendors, etc),...
Andrew, Have a look at some of the IBM Component Business Modelling stuff. It attempts to break a business down into service units - across which you map IT...
Andrew, If you're interested in the metamodel for business process model along with some other patterns related to business activities from a data architect...
I'm co-chairing the first ever conference on Linked Data at New York City's Roosevelt Hotel June 17 - 18, 2008, and I've arranged for the company putting the...
Hi Andrew, This question of yours has been sitting on my mind the last couple of days. A metamodel for organisational processes that I recall is the Singapore...
Hi Andrew It sounds to me that what you're after here is to identify the facets of your taxonomy/ontology. Typical facets to choose from tend to be: Business...
... [...] Hello everyone! I work at Zope Corporation. We provide SaaS-based CMS solutions to local media companies (broadcast and print). We also participate...
Hi Patrick, that sums it up nicely, thanks. Although, being naturally greedy, I want more. Yep, the free steak knives too. Well, actually, what I'm hoping for...
Thanks Lisa, that sounds very interesting. The data architects are good at distilling out some of the structural essence and often shed a lot of light on these...
Hi Paolina, thanks for that. I've had a look at the Baldridge award framework and it's very interesting. I think one has to become a polymath for this sort of...
Here is a question for thesaurus standards experts: Is the relationship between a company name and its corresponding industry considered to be hierarchical...
Heather, I would consider the relationship between a company name and its industry to be hierarchical. But rather than representing a strict whole-part...
Thanks for your quick reply, Fred. It isn't obvious. The Baltic Sea "is a" sea or is an instance of a sea. But you cannot say that Citibank "is a" financial...
Call for Papers Fourth European Information Architecture (IA) Summit "Redrawing the Map" Sept 26-27, 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands The Fourth European...
Regulators would also be a part of the financial industry, and they are not (usually) companies. My feeling is that you're dealing with a part-whole...
