My name is Clint. I work for a data services company in Wisconsin. I have been reading the board for a few weeks now and I am not sure how much I can...
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bren4444
Aug 4, 2008 3:20 pm
Hello all, I'm looking for some advice about how to handle acronyms. We include many in our thesaurus, but they're also lurking about elsewhere in other lists...
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wbitunjac
Aug 4, 2008 7:07 pm
I have used a disambiguation interrupt (when available) to prompt users to select from a list of preferred terms. In the case of acronyms I only do this when...
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Layne Foit
lmfoit
Aug 4, 2008 8:21 pm
Hi Brenda, Great questions! This is a common problem for most of us practicing taxonomy. At a previous job I helped manage an "acronym finder" tool that was...
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tronmantic
Aug 4, 2008 11:14 pm
Hi: I was wondering if anyone had any opinions on the Taxonomy Bootcamp or AIIM IOA courses--specifially the Master course. I know that Seth Earley is a part...
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Jim Wessely
wes0517
Aug 5, 2008 12:18 am
Hi Ron, I think that you are likely to see a broader variety of topics at the Taxonomy Boot Camp (TBC). AIIM is pretty much focussed only upon content...
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Patrick Lambe
plambe2002
Aug 5, 2008 2:14 am
Welcome Clint - you'll find over time that there are many species of taxonomist lurking here! P Patrick Lambe weblog: www.greenchameleon.com website:...
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Alice Redmond-Neal
aredmondneal
Aug 5, 2008 3:54 am
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...
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Alice Redmond-Neal
aredmondneal
Aug 5, 2008 4:01 am
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...
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vduvernet
Aug 5, 2008 6:25 am
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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Gardner, Mike
micheal.gardner
Aug 5, 2008 7:34 am
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...
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Julie Vittengl
julierae22
Aug 5, 2008 10:03 am
Just chiming in that I too am involved primarily in product taxonomies for a website that allows user discovery of engineering products.My organization...
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Clint
clint_from_b...
Aug 5, 2008 12:35 pm
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...
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ahrenlehnert
Aug 5, 2008 1:24 pm
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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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Aug 5, 2008 5:43 pm
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...
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Brenda Darrah
bren4444
Aug 5, 2008 9:08 pm
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...
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Fran
freideleebs
Aug 6, 2008 9:31 am
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...
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Adrian Walker
adrianw88
Aug 6, 2008 11:33 am
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...
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David Bromberg
db2xx1ny
Aug 6, 2008 1:10 pm
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 ...
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Kristina
deviantdiva8
Aug 6, 2008 4:11 pm
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...
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wbitunjac
Aug 6, 2008 4:46 pm
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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Frank Guerino
guerino1
Aug 7, 2008 7:25 pm
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...
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Jay Maechtlen
jmaechtlen
Aug 9, 2008 7:42 am
As a technical writer, I often encounter issues of terminology, of finding information, of storing and categorizing information, and so forth. Can anyone talk...
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David Eddy
deddy205ar
Aug 9, 2008 5:41 pm
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,...
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David Eddy
deddy205ar
Aug 9, 2008 5:50 pm
Bernda - In my acronyms dictionary, "cc" was the volume winner, with 298 different (hopefully... I've not bothered to look) meanings. - David...
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Seth Earley
seth_earley
Aug 10, 2008 4:44 pm
We've done this by creating an editorial and usage guide that goes along with taxonomy deliverables. Naming conventions within the narrative of technical...
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DuCharme, Bob
philregion
Aug 11, 2008 6:52 pm
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...
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d_j_keldsen
Aug 12, 2008 3:29 pm
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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Jann Cunningham
jann.cunningham
Aug 12, 2008 10:41 pm
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...
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xfilergg
Aug 13, 2008 2:41 pm
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...
