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June 2003

ARTICLES
Ten questions for taxonomy teams (excerpt)
Ten questions that multi-disciplinary taxonomy teams should consider when creating a development road map.
 
MONTAGUE INSTITUTE NEWS
-- New Montague Institute Fellow
We are very pleased to welcome Marcia Morante as our newest Fellow. Marcia will be developing and teaching a course on usability in Knowledge Base Publishing. She is also available for on-site sessions and taxonomy implementation services.
 
-- New seminar formats
The Integrating Taxonomies seminar is now available in Web format. All seminars are also available as on-site sessions.
 
-- Seminar certificate
All seminars now include an optional Certificate of Completion. To get the certificate, each participant must submit the results of the seminar "homework" assignments and create a prototype taxonomy using the Lab.
 
-- Lab enhancements
The Web-based Lab has the following new features:
 
— authority files for corporate and personal names, geographic names, and management functions;
— query external Web sites (e.g. Google, Bitpipe, MeansBusiness) on any term;
— create two separate thesauri, each with its own terms, relationships, and document links;
— create cross references from terms in one thesaurus to terms in another thesaurus.
 
REGULAR FEATURES
Best of BUSLIB-L (the collected wisdom of the world's expert researchers)
Case studies
Mergers and acquisitions deals
 
Digest: Managing intellectual assets
Annotated links to current articles and interesting Web sites.
 
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.
 
Top 20 articles
Links to the 20 most popular articles on this site based on last month's server statistics.
 
SEMINARS (see also the calendar listing)
Integrating taxonomies October 7/8, 2003 (Enfield, CT)
A vendor-neutral introduction to the why and how of integrating business taxonomies. By "integration" we mean bridging the gaps between disciplines and cultures as well as making taxonomies available to navigation tools, incorporating them into business applications, and including them in editorial work flow. Includes access to our Web-based Lab.
 
WEB COURSES
Creating and using business taxonomies
 
Integrating taxonomies