[Sigia-l] Multi-lingual Taxonomies – TaxoCoP call, May 30th, 2:00-3:30pm EDT

[Patrick Valiquet]

Hi,

Join us for this month's Taxonomy Community of Practice conference call on
multi-lingual taxonomies.

Date & Time: Wednesday, May 30th - 2:00 to 3:30 PM EDT.

Cost: $50 per participant.
Register for the session at http://www.earley.com
Please register by May 28th to ensure that you receive the instructions in
time.

Description

In our global business environment, it often isn't enough to derive a
taxonomy in English.  Frequently, international businesses and web sites
now need multi-lingual taxonomies, or local language variations. This
challenge was discussed in a CoP thread earlier this year, and now the May
conference call will let you hear from some experts on this topic.  Should
you have a central master taxonomy and local variants?  Do the local
versions translate back to global term?  What happens when some taxonomy
owners are non-English
speakers?  What is the governance structure for a multi-lingual? Seth
Earley, along with Marti Heyman and Denise Bedford, will discuss
strategies, solutions, and describe case studies and examples about how to
manage multi-lingual taxonomies.

Presenters: Seth Earley (Earley & Associates), Denise Bedford (World Bank
Group, Georgetown University, University of Tennessee, Kent State
University), Marti Heyman (Phena Partners)