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Transforming Your Schema and Taxonomies into an OntologySaturday, July 14, 2012 8:00AM - 5:00PM CE CourseDescription: Ontologies are the next level of complexity in the realm of classification schemes and information warehousing. They retain the power and capabilities of taxonomies and thesauri while providing inferencing and business rule adherence. They can provide both precision and recall when modeled correctly. What confuses many people is how to use their existing metadata schema, taxonomies and thesauri as a starting point for an organizational ontology. If you're familiar with taxonomies and metadata schema, it's not as hard as you might think. This course will show you how the pieces fit together. Speaker: Christine Connor, TriviumRLG LLC - Ms. Connors has extensive Fortune 100 experience in knowledge representation, enterprise search, and content management. She and her teams have delivered large-scale taxonomies, ontologies, metadata schema and rules-based classification tools to improve retrieval of information via multi-vendor and open-source platforms. Sponsor: Taxonomy Division
Taxonomy Design for the Short on TimeMonday, July 16, 2012 8:00AM - 9:30AMDescription: A quick-start guide to implementing a taxonomy program, with an emphasis on building buy-in and leveraging existing standards and pre-published vocabularies. Speaker: Fred Leise is manager of the taxonomy team at Sears Holdings, which is responsible for display hierarchies and product attributes for eight public ecommerce websites with over 30 million products. A past president of the American Society for Indexing, he is a back-of-book indexer specializing in scholarly works in the humanities. Fred has written and presented widely on indexing and taxonomies, including coauthoring with Karl Fast and Mike Steckel a seminal series of articles on controlled vocabularies published in the online journal BoxesandArrows.com. He alphabetizes his kitchen spices, but so far has resisted cataloging his stash of knitting yarn. Sponsor: Taxonomy Division Vendor Sponsor: Information Today Inc. Three M's: Mapping, Merging, and Multi-lingual TaxonomiesMonday, July 16, 2012 12:00PM - 1:30PMDescription: Developing a sound taxonomy is a challenge in itself, but what happens when a taxonomist needs to harmonize existing or legacy vocabularies, create crosswalks or mappings between taxonomies, or address a multi-lingual audience? This session will present tips and case studies for bridging multiple vocabularies, taxonomies, and languages. Speakers: Heather Hedden is a taxonomy consultant with Hedden Information Management, helping varied 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 the mentoring chair of the Taxonomy Division of SLA and the founder and past manager for the Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies SIG of the American Society for Indexing. Heather is the author of numerous trade journal articles and the book, The Accidental Taxonomist (Information Today Inc., 2010). Dr. Marcie Zaharee currently works in The MITRE Corporation's Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems where she is the lead for developing a controlled vocabulary, taxonomy, and thesaurus for the intelligence reconnaissance and surveillance (ISR) community. Marcie joined MITRE in 2005 as the Associate Department Head for Information Management and Practice where she worked to advance knowledge management in MITRE, championing efforts which support staff collaboration, knowledge sharing, and strengthening MITRE's knowledge base. Prior to her arrival at MITRE, Marcie worked for the Department of Defense for 15 years in various positions to include Security Management, Intelligence Analysis, and Training Management. Marcie holds degrees in Business Management (BS), Business Education (MS), and Computing Technology in Education (PhD). Sponsor: Taxonomy Division Co-Sponsor: Business & Finance Division SPOTLIGHT SESSION: Reinventing Library SkillsMonday, July 16, 2012 4:00PM - 5:30PMDescription: Case studies and practical advice for transporting library skill sets to new areas of the information profession, or to entirely new careers, with focus on reinventing skills in order to stay competitive in a tight economy, branching out, developing in areas that are still relevant to SLA. Speakers: Richard Hulser is currently chief librarian, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. He has over 30 years of international experience working with a variety of library and cultural institutions to enhance their use of technology for information management. He is Chair of the SLA Museums, Arts & Humanities Division. a Fellow of SLA, and has served on the SLA Board of Directors and has held a variety of other elected and appointed positions in SLA. In 2010 Richard was awarded the SLAOutstanding Member Achievement Award. He is also an SIIA Certified Contents Rights Manager. As a frequent workshop leader and presenter at international professional association meetings, Hulser has focused on topics such as content management and portal technologies, copyright in the digital world, strategic technology planning, and the future use of technology for content and knowledge management. He has also authored a number of articles and book chapters related to technology use in libraries and information centers. Hulser holds an ALA accredited M.A. in librarianship & information management from the University of Denver; M.Ed. in instructional media and instructional product development from Utah State University; and .B.S. in earth & space sciences from Stony Brook University. Deb Hunt is Principal of Information Edge, www.information-edge.com, which empowers clients to find the information they need to do their work. Information Edge specializes in enterprise, document and digital asset management, knowledge services, research and analysis, and library design and automation. In addition to her MLS, Deb is a certified Enterprise Content Management Practitioner (ECMp) and believes that learning never stops. Deb has been a member of SLA since 1986 and is SLA's 2012 President-Elect. Her presidential theme is "Transform Knowledge and Expertise into Strategic Value." She served on the SLA Board as a Director from 2008-2010 and is the creator and team leader of SLA's 23 Things, for which she received the SLA Presidential Award. She is a past President of the San Francisco Bay Region Chapter and is also a member of the Silicon Valley Chapter and the LMD, KM, DPHT and IT divisions. She is an active member in the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) and served on its Board of Directors from 2001-2003. Ethel M. Salonen has extensive experience in the information services industry as both an information manager and a sales manager by working in academic, commercial, and not-for-profit organizations. Ethel is the Department Head for Information Services at The MITRE Corporation where Information Services enables MITRE and its work by providing information access, analysis and answers. Ethel is a past SLA President (2004-2005), past SLA award winner, and currently serves as the secretary for SLA's Leadership and Management Division. Sponsor: Taxonomy Division Co-Sponsors: Academic Division; Leadership & Management Division; Museums, Arts & Humanities Division; Social Science Division; Encore-Retired Members Caucus Vendor Sponsor: Bloomberg Law/Bloomberg BNA SPOTLIGHT SESSION: E-DiscoveryTuesday, July 17, 2012 8:00AM - 9:30AMDescription: Teaching information professionals how to manage and reduce risks through management practices that reduce time and costs for eDiscovery production. Tips on creating comprehensive Data Maps and best practices information management will be offered in this course. Speakers: Constance Ard is an Information Professional with Answer Maven Solutions. She has 14 years experience and expert research skills, and her experience ranges from business process analysis to project management. Constance creates custom information protocols that improve workflow efficiencies and increases business productivity, and also offers on-demand research and information and content management business consulting services. Ms. Ard was a founding member of The Seed 2020, a grassroots business networking organization in Louisville, KY that fosters the development of women and minority owned business. Constance is an active information professional organization volunteer. Currently she serves as the Chair of the Legal Division of the Special Libraries Association. She also serves as Chair of the Kentucky Virtual Library Advisory Committee. Miller Montague, also an Information Professional with Answer Maven Solutions, has over ten years of experience as a law librarian and a manager of information technology. Mr. Montague has extensive experience developing and implementing policies and procedures pertaining to knowledge/electronic resources, including project management and email management. He also provides support in research, reference and search services, organizing electronic and print content, and e-discovery preparedness evaluation. Miller holds a Master of Science in Library Science from the University of Kentucky and is certified in Enterprise Content Management and Email Management by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM). Sponsor: Legal Division Co-Sponsors: Information Technology Division, Taxonomy Division
Taxonomy Division Business Meeting / Program Topic: Methodologies for Taxonomy Project ManagementTuesday, July 17, 2012 10:00AM - 11:30AMSpeaker: Ahren E. Lehnert works in information management and has formerly developed enterprise taxonomies in a consulting capacity for clients in a broad range of industries. He has also worked in content and document management, records management, and digital asset management, often in conjunction with enterprise taxonomy development. His current work involves developing and managing an ontology used in conjunction with search for a multi-disciplinary research and development organization. Sponsor: Taxonomy Division
Adding Value to Content through Linked DataTuesday, July 17, 2012 4:00PM - 5:30PMDescription: Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn't previously linked. This session will provide an overview of linked data, its sources, and the value that information specialists can delivery through linking and integrating content and data from open sources. Speakers: Joseph Busch is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Taxonomy Strategies. Taxonomy Strategies guides global companies, government agencies, international organizations and not-for-profits such as Nike, Oracle, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the International Monetary Fund and Harvard Business Publishing in developing metadata frameworks and taxonomy strategies. We provide a very high level of expertise to our clients. Before founding Taxonomy Strategies, Joseph Busch held management positions at Interwoven, Metacode Technologies, the Getty Information Institute and PriceWaterhouse. He is a Past President of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (www.asis.org), and past member of the Board of Directors of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (dublincore.org). Joel Richard is the lead Web Developer for the Smithsonian Libraries and has over eighteen years of experience in software, web development and internet technology. He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1994. He is currently becoming an expert in Drupal by rebuilding the Libraries' substantial website into a Drupal-based Digital Library centered around Linked Open Data. Sponsor: Taxonomy Division Co-Sponsors: Government Information Division
Taxonomy Division Open HouseTuesday, July 17, 2012 8:30PM - 10:30PMDescription: Join us for the opportunity to network with people who are involved with or interested in creating, managing or using taxonomies and other forms of controlled vocabularies. We will have a fun ice-breaker activity and a cash bar, but the main focus is the opportunity to meet and talk to others in this field.
Keeping Your Taxonomy Fresh and RelevantWednesday, July 18, 2012 8:00AM - 9:30AMDescription: Once a taxonomy has been deployed, the real challenge is keeping it relevant and up to date. This session will highlight cases, tools, and best practices for governing and maintaining a taxonomy. The session will also examine the impact of taxonomy changes on previously-tagged content. Speakers: Fran Alexander began her career in the 1990s as an editor and information architect of dictionaries, including the Collins English Dictionary, encyclopaedias, thesauri, and almanacs, specialising in taking print products online. She joined political reference publisher Keesing's Worldwide in 2001, where she managed the creation of a fully digitized online news archive, with a new indexing and tagging system. She took a Masters of Research degree in Information Studies at University College London (2007-09), focusing on taxonomy projects during which she devised a framework for managing organisational politics, objectivity, and subjectivity in taxonomy work. Since joining the BBC in 2009, as well as her work on migration and revision of the BBC Archive's legacy taxonomies, she has developed taxonomy mapping and ontology curation strategies. Matt Johnson is Senior Program Manager for Taxonomy and Information Standards in the eServices division of EMC Corporation. Prior to this position, he was employed as a knowledge management contractor for Microsoft's global field sales and marketing organization. Matt holds an M.L.S. from Queens College (CUNY) and is the author of multiple scholarly works in the library press on subject cataloging and social minorities. Sponsor: Taxonomy Division Vendor Sponsor: Gale/Cenage Impact of Technical Standards on Metadata and Controlled Vocabulary ProjectsWednesday, July 18, 2012 10:00AM - 11:30AMDescription: Case studies of entity extraction, auto-categorization, metadata management, and digital asset management projects that utilized taxonomy and cataloguing technical standards. Speakers: Paulette Hasier is a contractor and Manager of Research Services for a DoD Agency. She has worked in this position for over three years and has been instrumental in moving the library from a print based research facility to an electronic accessible research center. With over 16 years of library experience, her prior positions include; Manager of Education and Member Services at OCLC, Director of the Business Information Center at SMU and Special Collection Librarian at Dallas Public Library. She has a MSLS and a MS from the University of North Texas and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Texas at Arlington. Hannah Sommers coordinates the projects in the NPR library portfolio, making sure that resources are driven toward high priority initiatives and that the library is contributing to innovation at NPR. Hannah received her MLIS from the University of Texas at Austin and was a legal research librarian prior to joining NPR. She currently serves on the board of DC-SLA. Between undergraduate and graduate studies, she spent two years in China's Sichuan province teaching English to college students. When she's not thinking about the world of information, she ponders home improvement projects. Dr. Marcie Zaharee currently works in The MITRE Corporation's Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems where she is the lead for developing a controlled vocabulary, taxonomy, and thesaurus for the intelligence reconnaissance and surveillance (ISR) community. Marcie joined MITRE in 2005 as the Associate Department Head for Information Management and Practice where she worked to advance knowledge management in MITRE, championing efforts which support staff collaboration, knowledge sharing, and strengthening MITRE's knowledge base. Prior to her arrival at MITRE, Marcie worked for the Department of Defense for 15 years in various positions to include Security Management, Intelligence Analysis, and Training Management. Marcie holds degrees in Business Management (BS), Business Education (MS), and Computing Technology in Education (PhD). Sponsor: Information Technology Division Co-Sponsor: Taxonomy Division
Digital Asset Management: Techniques for Indexing Non-Textual ContentWednesday, July 18, 2012 12:00PM - 1:30PMDescription: This session will provide an overview and case studies of using controlled vocabularies and metadata schema to index and manage non-textual content including video, still images, and audio files. The session will focus on the unique standards, best practices, tools, and challenges of DAM. The session will address how the DAM approach differs from (and integrates with) the management of textual content. Speakers: Laura Fu is a Digital Asset Specialist at Sears Holdings Corporation, working on the digital asset management (DAM) tool within SHC Studio Services. She handles daily image imports to the websites as well as asset requests, metadata updates and content QA. She is currently working on reorganizing the DAM's content for internal use based on the public websites' taxonomies. Laura received her BA in TV/Video production from Hofstra University in 2002. She has created unique roles in media asset management in TV news production, commercial and interactive video production, and most recently in still photography content management. In May of 2013 she will receive her MLS from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Randy Marcinko, CEO, Marcinko Enterprises Inc. David Riecks is a well-known correspondent on digital subjects and a working assignment and stock photographer. He was an early proponent of digital imaging and is sought after by his peers as a consultant. Riecks regularly contributes to several professional forums, He has been involved in many recent digital image standards initiatives as well as being a featured speaker at industry events such as PhotoPlus Expo, the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit, and the first and secondInternational PhotoMetadata Conferences. Riecks founded ControlledVocabulary.com as a resource to help others learn how best to build keyword hierarchies for describing images in databases and embedding information into digital photo files. Riecks has recently assumed leadership for the Photo Metadata website, which had begun under the Stock Artists Alliance using an award from the US Library of Congress as part of their "Preserving Creative America" Initiative. In recognition of his years of work to further photo metadata standards, he was named as a "Pioneer of Digital Preservation" by the Library of Congress in 2009. Sponsor: News Division Co-Sponsor: Taxonomy Division |