Montague Institute Review December 2006


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December 2006

ARTICLES
"Cracking" metadata: Lessons learned at the BBC (abstract)

Karen Loasby, Information Architecture Team Leader at the British Broadcasting System, shares her experiences in metadata management. Of particular interest are her comments on how metadata became a priority for senior executives, how the BBC manages and uses metadata, and strategies for getting authors to enter high quality metadata.

DIGEST

Knowledge Base Editor's Digest

This month's entries include a presentation on integrating "folksonomies" and controlled vocabularies, an article about the use of collaboration technologies in knowledge management, and a primer on ITIL (a new IT management discipline).

ROUNDTABLES & SEMINARS

Pre-roundtable primer: How to customize search. (January 16, 2007 via teleconference)

Most modern search engines can be customized for greater accuracy and relevance. In this teleconference, you'll learn the why, what, and how.

Good to great search. (January 17, 2007 via teleconference)

Netflix search guru and former Ultraseek search architect Walter Underwood offers in-depth tips on how to get better performance out of your search engine and how to get past vendor hype when shopping for a new search engine product.

Pre-roundtable primer: Collaboration & innovation. (March 27, 2007 via teleconference)

For those having little experience with collaboration tools in a corporate environment. Includes an overview of collaboration technologies, the economics of using collaboration to promote innovation, and the role IT can play in innovation.

Collaboration tools & innovation. (March 28, 2007 via teleconference)

Brian Gorman, leader of Intel's Advanced Collaboration and Innovation research team, describes a pilot project to use blogs, wikis, and other collaboration tools to foster innovation.

Pre-roundtable primer: Tagging strategies . (May 16, 2007 via teleconference)

For those having little experience with tagging in a corporate environment. Includes an overview of tagging strategies, how to store terms and categories, and how to merge, map, and transfer terms.

Bridging the gap between folksonomies and taxonomies. (May 17, 2007 via teleconference)

Bradley Allen describes a pilot project with one of Siderean's customers that will integrate author-generated tags (a "folksonomy") with controlled vocabularies created by professional catalogers or indexers.

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