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SLA Taxonomy Division Workshops at 2012 Conference

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SLA Taxonomy Division Webinars

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Professional Development Webinar Series

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A "Fireside Chat"

What kinds of programs are you interested in having in 2012? Join us in conversation about the kinds of programming you would like to see. Taxonomy use cases? Metadata? Ontologies? You tell us, and we'll do our best to find you webinar speakers that address your development needs.

Friday, March 2, 2012, 1-2pm eastern

Please use this link to access the recording with our usual password.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/257035241

SKOS and Taxonomy Management with Bob DuCharme

Wednesday, March 7, 2012
1-2pm eastern

You manage a taxonomy, thesaurus, or some other kind of controlled vocabulary using a proprietary tool or perhaps even by emailing around spreadsheets to each other. You've heard about the Simple Knowledge Organization System standard, but what does it have to do with your vocabularies, and what does it have to do with the semantic web? Come learn how this W3C standard can help you ease into semantic technology and better manage your vocabularies at both small and large scales.

Bob DuCharme is a Solution Architect at TopQuadrant, the leading provider of software and solutions for modeling, developing and deploying semantic web applications. He has been writing and speaking on semantic web technology since 2002. Earlier in his career he did development and data and systems architecture at Moody's Investors Service and LexisNexis. Bob is the author of the O'Reilly book "Learning SPARQL" and several books on XML-related technology for publishers such as Prentice-Hall and Manning.

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https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/435583369
Bob's slides are available here.

Integrating Taxonomies and Text Analytics

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
1-2pm eastern

Tom Reamy will join us to speak about how to integrate taxonomies, often human-crafted, with machine-based text analytics tools. Can they work together? How does that happen?

Tom Reamy
Chief Knowledge Architect
KAPS Group

     Tom Reamy is currently the Chief Knowledge Architect and founder of KAPS Group, a group of knowledge architecture, taxonomy, and eLearning consultants. Tom has 20 years of experience in information architecture, intranet management and consulting, and education and training software.
     Tom's academic background includes a Master's in the History of Ideas, research in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and a strong background in philosophy, particularly epistemology. He has published articles in various journals and is a frequent speaker at knowledge management conferences.
     When not writing or developing KM projects, he can usually be found at the bottom of the ocean in Carmel taking photos of strange creatures.

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Taxonomy Updating, Combining, and Translating

Wednesday, January 18, 2012
1- 2 pm eastern
Taxonomies are designed, built, managed, and maintained, but they also evolve, change, and adapt over time. In this session, Heather Hedden, author of the book The Accidental Taxonomist, will present several special topics in taxonomy management as described in Chapter 11 of her book, "Taxonomy Implementation and Evolution." These include:
1. Taxonomy Updating - when one might update or revise a taxonomy, what to review, and what to change
2. Taxonomy Combining - the differences of merging, integrating, and mapping taxonomies and when and how to do each
3. Taxonomy Translating - the creation of multilingual taxonomies to serve different language or country users

Heather Hedden is a taxonomy consultant with Project Performance Corporation, helping varied commercial clients develop taxonomies and metadata strategies for web or internal content management. She also teaches online continuing education workshops in taxonomy creation through Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Heather previously worked as a taxonomist at First Wind, Viziant Corporation, Thomson/Gale, and her own consulting business of Hedden Information Management. She is chair of the mentoring committee\ of the Taxonomy Division of SLA and the founder and past manager of the Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies SIG of the American Society for Indexing. Heather is the author numerous trade journal articles and the book, The Accidental Taxonomist (Information Today Inc., 2010).

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Please remember that these webinars are a division-member benefit. We believe they provide great value for your membership dollars, and we hope new members will agree!

The Taxonomy Division of the Special Libraries Association presents

A webinar series, Leveraging Your Taxonomy

6 sessions
The second Wednesday of the month
Beginning July 13, 2011 at 1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific
For SLA Taxonomy Division Members
http://wiki.sla.org/display/SLATAX/Events

The traditional use of taxonomy is still valid and tremendously significant, enabling precise and complete search returns. However, with the evolution of web and search technologies, there are new approaches that help users discover additional resources, make effective collaborations, and better use the mountains of information available to them. "We'll explore how organizations in publishing, the public sector, and private industries can get the most from their taxonomies in these sessions," said Marjorie M.K. Hlava, president of Access Innovations and one of the presenters.

These free webinars are a benefit of membership in the Special Libraries Association's Taxonomy Division. To join SLA, click here: http://www.sla.org/content/membership/joinsla/index.cfm. If you already belong to SLA but not the Taxonomy Division, click here: http://www.sla.org/content/membership/unitchange.cfm to add the Taxonomy Division for just $20. See below for more details on SLA and the Taxonomy Division.

Webinar Schedule

Semantic integration - Leveraging the taxonomy

Marjorie M.K. Hlava
July 13
Hlava will introduce the myriad uses for different parts of a taxonomy with actual website examples. She will also discuss how to turn a traditional thesaurus (taxonomy) into a semantic web resource. Additionally, Hlava will talk about the power of content links; connecting people, places and ideas; implementing up-to-the-minute alerts for specialized interests; and tips for designing a thesaurus to inform rich sites.

Download the PowerPoint pdf from this presentation here.

Taxonomies in Search

Marjorie M.K. Hlava
August 10
This session will explore why the recall, precision, and relevance factors that figure so heavily in search are often missing from taxonomies as well as how search can potentially be improved by applying subject metadata. Participants will also learn how taxonomies can be used on the front-end or attached to records at the time they are created and loaded.

Solving the Challenge of Connecting People and Author Networks

Jay Ven Eman, Ph.D.
September 14
As online digital publishing continues to grow, taxonomies can be increasingly useful in connecting people with author networks through directory creation with author disambiguation and subject metadata tagging to increase the usefulness of information for researchers and community-building.
"Publishers are often confounded by the problems of unambiguously identifying authors and managing author profile information. Editors need to quickly identify and contact potential reviewers with specific domain knowledge," Ven Eman explains. He adds, "The many overlapping networks of contributing authors and ever-growing stores of bibliographic data increase the likelihood of two or more individuals having the same or similar names. Complicating the problem further, personal names often appear in multiple variations, reflecting cultural differences in naming conventions across globally dispersed research communities."

Solving these types or problems will create new opportunities for collaboration among researchers, and greater discoverability for publishers, authors, and institutional repositories, Ven Eman explains.

Why Information Architecture on SharePoint

Joe Shepley
October 12
The ease of deployment coupled with its ability to grow organically (and virally) means that few SharePoint environments are adequately planned out ahead of time or built according to a unified, coherent vision. The result is a tangle of SharePoint sites, with poorly organized content at every level, which renders the SharePoint environment little better than traditional share drives. In this webinar, Shepley explores the ways that information architecture can help improve the effectiveness of your SharePoint environment by allowing for better organized content.

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Drilling down to the Challenges of a SharePoint taxonomy implementation

Marjorie M.K. Hlava and Joe Shepley
November 9
Although most organizations have SharePoint in place, very few have taken care to structure the information architecture of their environment, and with good reason: doing so can be challenging using SharePoint's native tools and capabilities. In this webinar, Hlava and Shepley explain the main challenges organizations face when trying to implement a taxonomy in their SharePoint environment as well as some of the best practices they can use to succeed.

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Taxonomies for Publishing: Enhancing the User Experience

Jay Ven Eman, Ph.D
December 14
A survey of ways that taxonomies can be used to semantically enrich publisher content and improve the overall user experience. Actual website examples will illustrate opportunities to leverage the taxonomy to transform each piece of content into a semantic web resource.

In the modern environment of Web-hosted content, where users can instantly find and access vast numbers of works, the competitive value of a journal article, a book, or a collection is increasingly derived from users' ability to connect the information contained within the works themselves with other content that is important to them. This ability to create instant connections between works that have been heretofore kept separate or "siloed" ? by journal title, content type, or publishing house ? represents a revolution in the way users search for, consume, and pay for information. This trend has been happening for several years, often to the commercial disadvantage of publishers: by indexing every page on the Web, Google has changed the economy of publishing to one that is increasingly based around the article or the chapter, rather than the journal or the book. Instead of starting at a journal's home page, users go directly to articles, bypassing the publisher's home page branding and revenue-generating advertising . Google has effectively become the "hub" connecting all content on the Web. Nearly all of the major publishing organizations are discovering that in order to protect their brands and preserve the value of subscription sales, they need to become more active participants in this process and create new paths that enable users to find additional value within their content collections.

We will discuss
Beyond searching and browsing, the power of content links to enable discovery
Connecting people, places, events, products
Repurposing legacy content to create targeted resources for specific target markets
Enabling links to ideas and data sets beyond the article
Creating networks of authors, peer reviewers, and society members

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About the Speakers

Marjorie M.K. Hlava is the founding Chair of the SLA Taxonomy Division. She has been involved with more than 200 taxonomies over the past 38 years. She is a pioneer in the data management industry and co-founded Access Innovations in 1978. Hlava is a previous member of the board of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and a former president of ASIDIC (now NFAIS, the National Federation of Advanced Information Services), and the Board of Documentation Abstracts. She has held numerous other positions in professional information societies, is co-author of the ASIS&T Thesaurus and was a member of the standards development team for ANSI/NISO Z39.19 (controlled vocabulary) and ANSI/NISO Z39.84 (Dublin Core). She serves on the Content Board for NISO and is an active member of the Networked Knowledge Organization System (NKOS).

Jay Ven Eman is the CEO of Access Innovations. He holds a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Washington, an MBA from the University of New Mexico, and a doctorate in business from the University of Colorado. Ven Eman is past president of ASIDIC and has given workshops, presentations, and seminars on ontologies, topic maps, database development, legacy file conversions, SMGL, HTML, XML, and related copies.

Joe Shepley is Vice President and Practice leader for Doculabs a Privately Held; Information Technology and Services company. His areas of expertise include Corporate strategy, Enterprise 2.0, e-discovery and litigation readiness, taxonomy, process improvement, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) processes and technologies, SDLC methodologies, ITIL (V3 Foundation), Project management (PMP). He is a regular Contributor to CMSWire and AIIM E2.0 Community Blog.

These free webinars are a benefit of membership in the Special Libraries Association's Taxonomy Division.

About the Special Libraries Association

The Special Libraries Association (SLA) is a nonprofit global organization for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners. SLA serves almost 9,000 members in 75 countries in the information profession, including corporate, academic, and government information specialists. SLA promotes and strengthens its members through learning, advocacy, and networking initiatives. For more information, visit www.sla.org.

About the Taxonomy Division

The Taxonomy Division addresses ways to organize and structure information so that content is accessible and useful. It offers a practical context for exploring issues and sharing experiences related to planning, creating and maintaining taxonomies, thesauri, authority files, and other controlled vocabularies and information structures. The division encompasses traditional and emerging cognitive approaches to organizing information and the full range of settings in which taxonomies are applied. For more information, visit http://wiki.sla.org/display/SLATAX

Who Should Join?

Anyone interested in or responsible for:
Strategies for planning and creating taxonomies - for example: identifying and articulating the need for taxonomies; demonstrating and communicating their value; analyzing existing vocabularies to inform the creation of new ones; and selecting technologies and tools to support them. Implementation, maintenance, and use of controlled vocabularies for all types of information and all relevant contexts, such as support for search and navigation
Standards, governance, and management of taxonomies and other controlled vocabularies
New and emerging approaches to organizing information, such as the semantic web, ontologies, folksonomies, and tagging, including relationships between user-generated tags and formal controlled vocabularies.

Joining is easy - just visit http://www.sla.org and select the "Join SLA" link in the Membership menu. Membership in one division (such as the Taxonomy Division) is free.

Taxonomy Boot Camp

Co-located with KM World, Enterprise Search Summit, and SharePoint Symposium
October 31 - November 1, 2011
Washington Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC
http://www.taxonomybootcamp.comhttp://www.taxonomybootcamp.comConference website
Call for speakers deadline March 14, 2011

AIIM Information Organization and Access Training

Information Organization and Access (IOA) Course Series

Attachments

	Name	Size	Creator (Last Modifier)	Creation Date	Last Mod Date	Comment
	SLA_2010_Taxo_2.doc	42 kb	Jennifer Borrell	Mar 25, 2010	Mar 25, 2010	SLA 2010 Annual Conference - Taxonomy-related programs & events
	SLA July 13 2011 - leveraging the taxonomy.pdf	3.32 Mb	Mary Garcia (modified by Mary Garcia)	Jul 14, 2011	Jul 14, 2011	Webinar Series Presentation #1
	Taxonomy-Updating-Combining-Translating-SLA.pdf	1.31 Mb	Christine Connors (modified by Christine Connors)	Feb 28, 2012	Feb 28, 2012	Heather Hedden's webinar presentation
	BobDuCharmeSKOSIntro.pdf	1.14 Mb	Christine Connors	Mar 13, 2012	Mar 13, 2012

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