Sunday, April 23, 2006

3:30 pm - 6:45 pm

Level: Introductory

Organizations are embarking on taxonomy initiatives to serve a wide variety of audiences and purposes. Fundamentally these are metadata management projects, but business sponsors rarely see them in that light. In many cases, taxonomy initiatives are seen as separate from enterprise data initiatives. This workshop will go through taxonomy project processes for derivation, validation, testing, integration, rollout and governance. Attendees will be able to understand how taxonomy projects should be integrated with overall metadata management and the best ways to communicate their role to business users and sponsors.

• Taxonomy drivers
• Information architecture versus Semantic architecture
• Project definiition
• Audience selection
• Data gathering techniques
• Content review processes
• Term Extraction
• Creating search and navigation scenarios
• Search engine and content managmenet system integration
• Testing and validation
• Training and Rollout
• Governance and integration with enterprtise metadata management

Seth Earley is the founder and senior consultant for Earley & Associates, Inc. He has performed taxonomy development for a wide variety of organizations including FreddieMac, Fidelity Investments, Progress Software, the Internal Revenue Service, Parexel, Abbott Labs, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Plymouth Rock Insurance, Gartner Group and others. His work has included projects for the IBM Office of the CIO to develop new application architectures and refine system performance for a worldwide deployment, and for GE to assist business unit leaders in architecting the GE Capital Virtual Boardroom, which spanned 30 plus business units. He is co-author of “Practical Knowledge Management” which focuses on taxonomy as the foundation for knowledge processes.