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New Ways to Think About TaxonomyThe role of taxonomies in Your Organization
UIE Virtual Seminar Thursday May 7th, 1:30 PM ET
Seth [email protected]
Stephanie Lemieux514-804-7833
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Taxonomy? What taxonomy?
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Goals of a taxonomy
• Allow for knowledge discovery• Improve usability of applications as well as
learnability of applications• Reduce the cost of delivering services, developing
products and conducting operations• Improve operational efficiencies by allowing for
reuse of information rather than re-creation• Improve search results and applicability (both
precision and recall)
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Topics for the talk• Why taxonomy is foundational to all enterprise applications
• Taxonomy and metadata explained
• Using taxonomy to improve search and navigation – CMS, DAM, Faceted Search, Query Disambiguation, etc
• Case studies and examples
• How to explain the value to colleagues
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Case Studies
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MOTOROLA, Inc.
Taxonomy, content
management & IA
Taxonomy, content
management & IA
Taxonomy & faceted
search
Taxonomy & faceted
search
Taxonomy for personalizatio
n & community
Taxonomy for personalizatio
n & community
© 2009
New Ways to Think About TaxonomyThe role of taxonomies in Your Organization
UIE Virtual Seminar Thursday May 7th, 1:30 PM ET
Seth [email protected]
Stephanie Lemieux514-804-7833