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Earley & Associates offers a series of throughly researched whitepapers that will help you learn basic concepts, identify best practices, understand requirements and be more successful in your content management, taxonomy, or search projects.

Recent Whitepapers

Retrospective Indexing: Strategies for Cataloging Legacy Content

Developing and maintaining a taxonomy is a means to an end – and not an end in itself. The outcomes may be such things as a better browsing experience, an improved shopping experience, or enhanced information search and retrieval. The key to the success of a taxonomy project depends upon its outcomes. It's important to identify the outcomes, and then, using a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches, determine whether the important criteria are being met. There are a number of different techniques for measuring the success of a taxonomy project, including a design phase walk thru, taxonomy tuning, and outcome evaluations (2007).


Cost: $50.00
Measuring the Success of a Taxonomy Project: Tuning Content Categories for Continuous Improvement

Developing and maintaining a taxonomy is a means to an end – and not an end in itself. The outcomes may be such things as a better browsing experience, an improved shopping experience, or enhanced information search and retrieval. The key to the success of a taxonomy project depends upon its outcomes. It's important to identify the outcomes, and then, using a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches, determine whether the important criteria are being met. There are a number of different techniques for measuring the success of a taxonomy project, including a design phase walk thru, taxonomy tuning, and outcome evaluations (2007).


Cost: $50.00
Managing Multiple Facets & Polyhierarchy

Word meanings are ambiguous. Different departments have different interpretations and perspectives. How do you resolve various points of view with regard to your taxonomy development? The key is to understand ways to map semantic relationships. How does engineering view their terms and categories versus the way sales and marketing may view the same terms? A "specification" document may have very different meanings to each of these groups. 


Cost: $50.00