Montague Institute Review May 2006


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May 2006

ARTICLES
Managing metadata in collaboration systems
This article was inspired by member questions about metadata, search, and SharePoint. As collaboration systems proliferate, enterprise information managers are wondering how to integrate team site searching with enterprise search, how to use existing taxonomies in collaboration systems, and how to synchronize enterprise-standard metadata with all affected team sites.

DIGEST

Knowledge Base Editor's Digest

This month's entries include articles on corporate use of folk taxonomies, three corporate case studies on "social tagging," and how to use metadata in marketing content.

ROUNDTABLES & SEMINARS
Valuing knowledge services (Face-to-face roundtable, June 13, 2006, Bedford, MA)
How do you explain fuzzy concepts like "knowledge management" and abstractions like "ontology" to non-IT managers in cost/benefit terms? How do you attract sufficient resources to do innovative projects? How do you get business unit managers to share the responsibility for formulating and apply metadata standards and creating high quality content? In this roundtable, at IT manager and a knowledge manager from the MITRE Corporation will kick off the discussion by telling how they have implemented "service portfolio management."

Metadata & search (Face-to-face seminar, June 14, 2006, Bedford, MA)
Learn how to create and maintain metadata structures (taxonomies) and expose them for use by a metadata-aware search engine such as Autonomy's Ultraseek. As an option, you can create your own metadata using a Web-based Lab and experiment with search engine interface functions. Lab includes individual mentoring for IT/content teams.

REGULAR FEATURES

Best of the Lists (collected wisdom of the world's information experts)

Identifying board members

How to get the most from our Web site (tutorial)

17 slides that contain an overview of our content and tips on how to use it.