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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Welcome Clint - you'll find over time that there are many species of taxonomist lurking here! P Patrick Lambe weblog: www.greenchameleon.com website:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Just chiming in that I too am involved primarily in product taxonomies for a website that allows user discovery of engineering products.My organization...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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: The American Institute for Information Management (AIIM) has on-line courses ( <http://www.aiim.org> www.aiim.org) in various tracks including one on ...
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...
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...
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...
As a technical writer, I often encounter issues of terminology, of finding information, of storing and categorizing information, and so forth. Can anyone talk...
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,...
We've done this by creating an editorial and usage guide that goes along with taxonomy deliverables. Naming conventions within the narrative of technical...
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...
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. ...
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...
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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