[Sigia-l] FW: TaxoCoP call - Facets & Taxonomies

[Stephanie Lemieux]

Hi everyone,

Join us Wednesday, August 29th - 1:00 to 2:00 PM EDT for the monthly TaxoCoP
call on Facets and Taxonomies.
Cost: $50 per participant.
Register for the session at
http://www.earley.com/ShoppingCart.asp?linkid=195


New Developments in Faceted Search: 

This months' taxonomy Community of Practice call will explore issues in
faceted search. We'll start with an overview of facets and faceted search
and then hear from Peter Bell, one of the founders of Endeca, a faceted
search company, about new developments in the field that allow a combination
of unstructured and structured tagging and classification. 

When Facets Meet Wikis and Tags 

"Put simply, if you're an information architect, we see facets in your
future," writes Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld in the newest edition of
O'Reilly's "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web" (aka The Polar
Bear.) Faceted classification has moved beyond early adopters in the past
few years, and is now graduating to more advanced projects. One such use is
enterprise social collaboration, aka Enterprise 2.0. In particular, facets
are being used to improve information access for employee-generated content
like wikis and blogs. And this content is categorized into facets with
folksonomies, or user- generated tags. But without centralized authority,
how can facets ensure security, tame chaos, and coexist with curated
content? In this session, we'll show results from Endeca's own internal
deployment of such a system, which has served as a laboratory for
innovations on facets in enterprise social collaboration. 

Presenters: 

Seth Earley is founder and senior consultant for Earley & Associates, Inc.,
a consulting firm specializing in knowledge, content and document management
systems with a focus on taxonomy development and search integration. 

Pete Bell is the cofounder of Endeca, the pioneer of the Information Access
Platform and one of the world's fastest growing software companies. 
 

Stephanie Lemieux
Taxonomy Development Consultant
EARLEY & ASSOCIATES, Inc.



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