[Sigia-l] June 29th conference call: Case Examples in Deriving a Taxonomy

[Seth Earley]

Sorry for the cross posts...

Seth

Please join us for our Wed June 29th Taxonomy Community of Practice Call

Register at www.earley.com/events.htm

The topic "Case Examples in Deriving a Taxonomy"
Wendi Pohs of IBM, Marcia Morante of K Curve, Amy Warner of Lexonomy and me

Term Gathering

- Finding "hidden taxos" that already exist in your organization
- Use of Industry, competitor, geography lists
- Leveraging menu items in existing HR applications
- Use of existing corporate standards
- How to find organization help from unexpected quarters; get buy-in early

Term Organization

- Search logs
- Web Statistics
- Content research
- Inventories and audits
- Facet identification
- Best practices case study

Testing and Evaluation

- What testing procedures exist?
- Card sorting (open and closed)
- Naming exercises
- Expert evaluation of draft taxonomies
- When to use each method
- What you can learn from each method
- Basic steps in each evaluation method
- How to analyze and interpret results from each method

Join the free taxonomy community of practice yahoo group:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TaxoCoP/

Seth Earley

Earley & Associates, Inc
seth at earley.com
781-444-0287
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