[Sigia-l] (Event) Metadata Survey Findings - July 15th Taxonomy Community of Practice Call

[Rebecca Allen]

Invitation
Please join us for our monthly Taxonomy Community of Practice Call. This month's session discusses the Metadata Maturity Survey Findings.

Date:  Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Time:  1:00 - 2:00 Eastern Time
Cost:  $50

To register, visit: http://www.earley.com/webinars/metadata-maturity-survey-findings 
(Survey participants need not register)

Four years ago, a benchmark survey was conducted to understand how organizations applied metadata to content assets and what business benefits they were realizing. Earley & Associates, along with Taxonomy Strategies, recently completed a project to update this research. The goal of the study was to measure industry progress on a Metadata Maturity Model scale, a road map designed to help get practitioners started - and continuously improve - content tagging within organizations.

In addition to presenting results around maturity levels, this call will benchmark current search, taxonomy, and metadata practices against the 2005 survey and report on some surprising key findings around information access and best practices adoption.

Attend this call and learn about where your company stands relative to your industry, understand the benefits that businesses are realizing from metadata, and find tangible opportunities for improved information ROI. 

Session Presenters
Paul Wlodarczyk, Senior Consultant at Earley & Associates, serves organizations in discrete and process manufacturing and in the life sciences, high tech, aerospace, retail, energy, capital equipment, and airline industries. Paul is a frequent speaker for events and contributing writer for publications by various organizations' events including AIIM, ATG Insight, DaraTech PLANT, DocTrain, IBM Information On Demand, Linked Data Planet, ebizQ, LISA Summit, Microsoft Executive Circle, TechLearn, National Public Radio, the Society for Technical Communicators, the Society for Applied Learning Technology, and the World Batch Forum.  Paul earned an MBA from the William E. Simon School of Business, and holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York.

Ron Daniel, Jr. is a Principal at Taxonomy Strategies. Before becoming a partner at Taxonomy Strategies, Dr. Daniel held technical positions at Interwoven, Metacode and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Daniel is an expert on XML and metadata industry standards. He has served as chair, editor, or member in numerous working groups including PRISM (Publishers Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) (prismstandard.org), XML Linking, RDF (Resource Description Framework), and the Dublin Core (dublincore.org). He co-edited three RFCs for the Internet Engineering Task Force. Ron earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Thank you,

Rebecca Allen
Taxonomy Consultant
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