Montague Institute Review May 2009


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May 2009

ARTICLES

Using a Semantic Web approach to reduce publishing costs

How O'Reilly Media reduced costs and time delays by using REST and RDF, two fundamental Semantic Web technologies. Their main challenge was reaching consensus on meaning.

DIGEST

Knowledge Base Editor's Digest

This month's entries include a market research report on the Semantic Web, a presentation on usability in federated search, and sample policies for government use of social media.

ROUNDTABLES & SEMINARS

Taxonomies, Search and SharePoint How-to (June 9 - 11, 2009 via teleconference)

Three-part teleconference series on the nuts-and-bolts of how to set up MOSS 2007 for navigation and search.

Managing SharePoint metadata: The HP/EDS experience (July 22, 2009 via teleconference)

Mike Gardner of HP/EDS tells how his organization uses an in-house metadata tool to enforce consistency and to update metadata values across all SharePoint site collections in the enterprise.

Customizing — and governing — SharePoint search (August 25, 2009 via teleconference)

How to customize SharePoint search and create guidelines that ensure enterprise search effectiveness.

The Semantic Web in practice (September 22 - 24, 2009 via teleconference)

Introduction to the Semantic Web, case study (Semantic Web at O'Reilly Media), how to transition from a database to the Semantic Web.

Taxonomies, Search and SharePoint How-to (October 20 - 22, 2009 via teleconference)

Three-part teleconference series on the nuts-and-bolts of how to set up MOSS 2007 for navigation and search.

REGULAR FEATURES

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

Faceted taxonomy examples

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.