[Sigia-l] Controlled vocabulary adoption rates

[Holly Hanna]

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