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Taxonomies and thesauri are becoming increasingly important for custodians of content and information. How to get, build, and evaluate them are natural first order concerns. But now you have a taxonomy and your initial content is indexed. What else can you do with your taxonomy besides adding keyword metadata to your Web pages and other content types?
This Click U Live! Seminar presents advanced taxonomy topics and issues such as taxonomy maintenance, alternative uses, and deployments. The Semantic Web and a host of related initiatives are headed your way. Will your taxonomy be ready? At the heart of the Semantic Web are words and phrases that represent concepts that can be used for describing Web resources. Basic organizing principles of concepts exist in the present thesaurus/taxonomy standards. Learn how to enrich your taxonomy for such knowledge organization systems (KOS) as the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS).
Other topics that may be discussed, time permitting, are notation, facets, multilingual thesauri, and multiple taxonomies and thesauri. Feedback, suggestions, and questions from attendees will govern the discussion of these and other topics.
Targeted Learners
This Click U Live! Seminar is designed for librarians, information professionals, and intranet and Web managers who are interested in learning how to move their taxonomies toward knowledge organization systems. The seminar covers intermediate and advanced taxonomy topics and issues. Attendees should be familiar with the fundamentals of taxonomy theory and practice and with the similarities and differences of various forms of controlled vocabularies such as taxonomies and thesauri. They should know the different uses and meanings of indexing, categorization, and classification. While the topics presented are beyond the basics of taxonomies, this seminar is focused on practical issues relating to your taxonomic strategy. It is not an advanced theoretical presentation.
Critical Learning Questions
• How do I keep my taxonomy fresh?
• What are the uses of taxonomies beyond indexing?
• How can I use my taxonomy as a navigation and search aid?
• Do I really need to go down the KOS road?
• How do I move from taxonomy to KOS?
Live Seminar
Cost: USD 99.00
Replay
Cost: USD 69.00
When you register, your location becomes a Click U Live! site. The cost is per site [phone connection], not per person. You can host as many people as you like for one low site fee! So be sure to invite your colleagues to learn with you! Register before 6 December and save USD 10.00! Program registrations beyond that date will be USD 109.00.
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