UIE Virtual Seminar Preview - New Ways To Think About Taxonomy

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New Ways to Think About TaxonomyThe role of taxonomies in Your Organization

UIE Virtual Seminar Thursday May 7th, 1:30 PM ET

Seth Earley781-820-8080Seth@earley.com

Stephanie Lemieux514-804-7833

Stephanie@earley.com

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Taxonomy? What taxonomy?

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Goals of a taxonomy

• Allow for knowledge discovery• Improve usability of applications as well as

learnability of applications• Reduce the cost of delivering services, developing

products and conducting operations• Improve operational efficiencies by allowing for

reuse of information rather than re-creation• Improve search results and applicability (both

precision and recall)

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Topics for the talk• Why taxonomy is foundational to all enterprise applications

• Taxonomy and metadata explained

• Using taxonomy to improve search and navigation – CMS, DAM, Faceted Search, Query Disambiguation, etc

• Case studies and examples

• How to explain the value to colleagues

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Case Studies

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MOTOROLA, Inc.

Taxonomy, content

management & IA

Taxonomy, content

management & IA

Taxonomy & faceted

search

Taxonomy & faceted

search

Taxonomy for personalizatio

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Taxonomy for personalizatio

n & community

© 2009

New Ways to Think About TaxonomyThe role of taxonomies in Your Organization

UIE Virtual Seminar Thursday May 7th, 1:30 PM ET

Seth Earley781-820-8080Seth@earley.com

Stephanie Lemieux514-804-7833

Stephanie@earley.com