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Purchase the archive: May 2007 Multi-lingual- $50 USD
Description
In our global business environment, it often isn't enough to derive a taxonomy in English. Frequently, international businesses and web sites now need multi-lingual taxonomies, or local language variations. This challenge was discussed in a CoP thread earlier this year, and now the May conference call will let you hear from some experts on this topic. Should you have a central master taxonomy and local variants? Do the local versions translate back to global term? What happens when some taxonomy owners are non-English speakers? What is the governance structure for a multi-lingual? Seth Earley, along with Marti Heyman (formerly with Deloitte, now with Phena Partners) and Denise Bedford (World Bank), will discuss strategies, solutions, and describe case studies and examples about how to manage multi-lingual taxonomies.
Presenters:
Seth Earley is founder and senior consultant for Earley & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in knowledge, content and document management systems with a focus on taxonomy development and workflow design. With 20 plus years in the technology field, he has been involved in knowledge and content management processes for the past 12 years.
Marti Heyman has been involved in the design and implementation of controlled vocabularies to support effective knowledge discovery for more than 15 years. She also has extensive experience with more generalized knowledge management practices and techniques. She has worked in a range of for-profit settings, including manufacturing, e-business technology and professional services. She earned both her MLIS and MBA degrees from Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Denise Bedford is a Senior Information Officer at the World Bank Group in Washington, DC, and also an associate of the faculty at Georgetown University, University of Tennessee, and Kent State University. Her current interests include multilingual information architectures, semantic analysis technologies, computational linguistics and knowledge economics. She is a past member of the Board of Trustees of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, a member of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Board of Directors, a Senior Fellow at the Montague Institute, and a member of the Board of the Federal CIO Council's Knowledge Management Working Group.