Welcome to the group Cynthia. I have a colleague who does a lot of Open Source CMS work so I will see what they recommend with Plone. Just curious, how do you...
Welcome Glenda. I noticed an article on your website from a couple of years ago on Topic Maps. (http://www.webindexing.biz/articles/TopicMaps.htm) Do you...
To add to Seth's question to Glenda about Topic Maps, I have a more novice question. Is the primary value of the 'floating' topic map that it provides the...
Hi Seth, I'm still working on the tagging triage. This is my "spare time" project. I truly hope it can become my full time project in 2006. I was thinking...
I opened the member view and saw that we had 395 members. Then I looked at the pending members and saw we had 5 new waiting to join. So we just hit 400...
Imagine - watching a taxonomy debate on your iPod! Now that is what iPods were made for... forget Desperate Housewives <smile> Thanks for posting this, Bob....
In watching the 'why would we need' segment, I was a bit taken back by the focus on 'managing' the stuff rather than 'accessing' the stuff. That said, I didn't...
The main value of the floating nature of topic maps is said to be that it makes them reusable. This would work well in areas such as geographic location, where...
Seth, I am quite interested in topic maps, as they seem a carefully thought out, structured method of information access. In practice, however, not much seems...
Paula - ... Management is important for a variety of reasons. For one thing they're going to need to be pursuaded to spend a LOT of money on this stuff. And...
David said: Management is important for a variety of reasons. You missed the point. The question wasn't about management, it was about 'why not use Google?' --...
Hi Paula, I agree that retrieval, and perhaps more important "keeping found things found" by tagging them in a taxonomy, is the big question. Google may do ...
Bob said: by tagging them in a taxonomy [By the way, thanks for the piece.] Forgive me for trying to keep up, but isn't 'tagging' more associated with the...
Paula - ... I'm missing something here. Are you asking "Google is more than good enough, why do all that management stuff?" Or am I still going further away...
Hi Paula, I would have to watch them all again to see the context, but I recall that the question you are referring to was "does a taxonomy make content easier...
David said: Are you asking "Google is more than good enough, why do all that management stuff?" Let's make sure we're talking similar scenarios. Corporate web...
I would be interested in the details behind that improvement (the doubling of search success). I am sure there are situations where Google is a reasonable...
Paula - ... "Corporate web site" meaning an outward facing (to consumers/paying customers), or an inward facing "intranet" for internal usage only? - David...
David said: "Corporate web site" meaning an outward facing (to consumers/paying customers), or an inward facing "intranet" for internal usage only? Good...
Seth said: Can you point us to the sources? Reported by colleague based on experiences at US Department of Transportation. Additional comments: "The controlled...
If your objective is just findability, then it's true you may want to exclude other management activities (but be sure you don't want those other management...
Hi, My name is Alain Savard and I am new to this group. I just moved from IT to Information Management here at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). To know more...
Hi, I have a problem with the links below... I received this error message. "QuickTime is missing software required to perform this operation. [...]" Is there...
Hi Alain, Yes. You will need to download the latest QuickTime Player. Go to http://www.apple.com/quicktime ... -- Bob Doyle Editor In Chief, CMS Review -...
This is just an FYI. While prowling the internet, I found a group called Ontolog. (http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage) The focus of this ...
Welcome Alain. I didn't know that there was a Canadian Space Agency. Glad to hear it. :-) A couple questions about your intranet. You mentioned that you...
... ... and we got attention by providing a new camera and extended robotic arm to look for potential damages on the space shuttle "return to flight" ...
Hi all, I'd forgotten I was subscribed to this list, I saw about 500 messages in the folder when I remembered to look... definitely some kind of information...
Hi all, I have a question about term downweighting versus stop words. I'm trying to fix the problem where a search on our site for "lumber company" returns...
Hi Brendan, I hate when that happens.... :-) Another colleague recently told me all of these messages were ending up in their spam folder. And I thought they...
