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September 2007
ARTICLES
Beginner's introduction to the Semantic Web
The essentials of the Semantic Web described in layman's terms, along with details on how it's implemented and examples of corporate applications.
 
DIGEST
Knowledge Base Editor's Digest
This month's entries include articles on the IT environment at the World Bank, new search technologies, a collaborative project to tag videos, and an experiment in social tagging of museum objects.
 
ROUNDTABLES & SEMINARS
Primer: Folksonomies & taxonomies (October 16, 2007 via teleconference)
This teleconference is designed as a backgrounder for the October 17 roundtable "Integrating folksonomies with Google." Its purpose is to orient you to the roundtable context and help you understand the concepts and tools discussed. This session takes a big-picture view of the topic and is designed for the layman, not professional indexers or taxonomists.
 
Integrating folksonomies with Google (October 17, 2007 via teleconference)
Rich Hoeg of Honeywell will tell how his organization is using a product called ConnectBeam to allow engineers to tag articles they find via searches conducted using the Google Search Appliance.
 
Primer: Ontologies & the Semantic Web (November 6, 2007 via teleconference)
This teleconference is designed as a backgrounder for the November 7 roundtable "Six weeks to the Semantic Web." Its purpose is to orient you to the roundtable context and help you understand the concepts and tools discussed. This session takes a big-picture view of the topic and is designed for the layman, not the computer scientist.
 
Six weeks to the Semantic Web (November 7, 2007 via teleconference)
Christine Connors of Intuit and Kevin Lynch of Raytheon describe a 6 week pilot project on expertise location to show the power of the Semantic Web in a business environment.
 
Primer: SharePoint search (December 11, 2007 via teleconference)
This teleconference is designed as a backgrounder for the December 12 roundtable "Benchmarking SharePoint for KM." Its purpose is to orient you to the roundtable context and help you understand the concepts and tools discussed.
 
Benchmarking SharePoint for KM (December 12, 2007 via teleconference)
Paul Rehmet of Unisys will share the results of a detailed technology evaluation of Google, Microsoft SharePoint 2007, and other vendors for enterprise search.
 
REGULAR FEATURES
Best of the Lists (collected wisdom of the world's information experts)
 
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.
 
How to get university credit for Montague Institute courses
Nearly all graduate level programs offer the option for an independent study, practicum, or field experience. Montague Institute courses fit into any of these categories for degrees in information management, knowledge management, and similar interdisciplinary programs.
 
Last updated on January 4, 2010