Building and Deploying a Corporate Taxonomy
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In London
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Type
Workshop
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Location
London
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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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Bob Bater
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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
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
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Building and Deploying a Corporate Taxonomy