Building and Deploying a Corporate Taxonomy

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In London

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Description

  • Type

    Workshop

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    1 Day

This interactive workshop uses a blend of presentation, discussion and practical exercises to explain the purposes of a Corporate Taxonomy and to introduce delegates to technologies, techniques and tools for building and deploying them. Suitable for: Librarians. Information scientists. Documentalists. Records managers. Information managers. Knowledge managers. User-facing IT specialists

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London
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Bonhill House, 1-3 Bonhill Street, London, EC2A 4BX

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Course programme

Building and Deploying a Corporate Taxonomy

A Corporate Taxonomy is the backbone of an organization's information architecture. Whether the focus is on records management, document management or knowledge management, a Corporate Taxonomy is key to effective storage and retrieval. A Corporate Taxonomy is different from a subject taxonomy in that it is a taxonomy of business activities. Corporate Taxonomies are therefore specific to an organisation and have to be custom-built.

This interactive workshop uses a blend of presentation, discussion and practical exercises to explain the purposes of a Corporate Taxonomy and to introduce delegates to technologies, techniques and tools for building and deploying them. Topics include:

  • Why taxonomies are useful
  • The Roles of Metadata
  • A taxonomy of controlled vocabularies
  • Ontologies, Taxonomies & Thesauri: What's the difference
  • Standard & Methodologies
  • Understanding how the business works
  • Developing a Corporate Ontology
  • Building a Corporate Taxonomy - Tools & Techniques
  • Deploying a Corporate Taxonomy
  • Technologies for Taxonomy
Who should attend:

Information Architecture is at last uniting the traditionally isolated roles which need to collaborate to manage knowledge and information successfully. This workshop is therefore relevant to:

  • librarians
  • information scientists
  • documentalists
  • records managers
  • information managers
  • knowledge managers
  • user-facing IT specialists

What do you get out of it?

On completing the workshop you will:

  • understand the key role of a Corporate Taxonomy in Information Architecture
  • appreciate the complementary roles of ontologies, taxonomies and thesauri
  • know what standards exist, what they cover and how they relate
  • be familiar with the major tools & techniques for building a Corporate Taxonomy
  • have experience of some typical tools and technologies for deploying a Corporate Taxonomy

Companion Course: Metadata: Principles and Practice

Time: 09.45 - 16.45

Additional information

Payment options: Course Fee: £280 plus VAT Aslib corporate members £350 plus VAT Non members PLEASE NOTE: All delegates should bring a wi-fi enabled laptop with them. If you do not have access to one, we can hire one for you at a cost of £60 plus VAT.

Building and Deploying a Corporate Taxonomy

Price on request