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  • Founded: Apr 18, 2005
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2680 Clint ELMORE
clint_from_b... Send Email
Aug 4, 2008
1:52 pm
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...
2681 bren4444 Send Email 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...
2682 wbitunjac Send Email 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...
2683 Layne Foit
lmfoit Send Email
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...
2684 tronmantic Send Email 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...
2685 Jim Wessely
wes0517 Send Email
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...
2686 Patrick Lambe
plambe2002 Send Email
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:...
2687 Alice Redmond-Neal
aredmondneal Send Email
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...
2688 Alice Redmond-Neal
aredmondneal Send Email
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...
2689 vduvernet Send Email 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...
2690 Gardner, Mike
micheal.gardner Send Email
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...
2691 Julie Vittengl
julierae22 Send Email
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...
2692 Clint
clint_from_b... Send Email
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...
2693 ahrenlehnert Send Email 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 ...
2694 Heather Hedden
hbhedden Send Email
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...
2695 Brenda Darrah
bren4444 Send Email
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...
2696 Fran
freideleebs Send Email
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...
2697 Adrian Walker
adrianw88 Send Email
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...
2698 David Bromberg
db2xx1ny Send Email
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 ...
2699 Kristina
deviantdiva8 Send Email
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...
2700 wbitunjac Send Email 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...
2701 Frank Guerino
guerino1 Send Email
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...
2702 Jay Maechtlen
jmaechtlen Send Email
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...
2703 David Eddy
deddy205ar Send Email
Aug 9, 2008
5:41 pm
Brenda - ... Acronyms are indeed a challenge. As an exploratory exercise I built a tiny "dictionary&quot; with 2,000 "terms" (I make no distinction between word,...
2704 David Eddy
deddy205ar Send Email
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...
2705 Seth Earley
seth_earley Send Email
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...
2706 DuCharme, Bob
philregion Send Email
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...
2707 d_j_keldsen Send Email 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. ...
2708 Jann Cunningham
jann.cunningham Send Email
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...
2709 xfilergg Send Email 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...
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