[Sigia-l] Controlled vocabulary adoption rates

[Mike.Steckel at sematech.org]

It seems to me the best thing to do is to be sure a wide variety of people are involved in the development of the CV. People, or representatives of groups of people, should assist you in evaluating the terms they will be using and in giving you feedback on an early draft of the CV. Be sure to highlight how tradeoffs are necessary and that the CV will not be set in stone. There can be some changes based on use patterns that emerge later.

Many people will always balk at organizational changes, but they would have reason to balk if the CV is not using the correct terms or is being implemented in a way that makes their lives more difficult. Some pre-testing and interviewing may help you decide why people are balking.

If possible, you might create an opportunity to use the terms in a near-real world setting too.

Mike Steckel



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From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On Behalf Of
Holly Hanna
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 1:03 PM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: [Sigia-l] Controlled vocabulary adoption rates


Hi all,

I've recently been working on an ambitious controlled vocabulary/taxonomy 
project at a large organization, and one of the problems we've run into 
revolves around the adoption rate within the organization.  Essentially, 
people are really excited about the idea of having a single, unified 
vocabulary from which to tag content, but when they realize that using a 
controlled vocabulary will mean changing their processes and tagging 
habits, they balk at actually using the vocabularies.  I've heard similar 
stories from others working within larger organizations.

Have others run into similar problems?  Does anyone have any suggestions 
for driving adoption within an organization?  

I'm more than willing to post a summary to the list if people are 
interested.

Thanks,

Holly

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