Practical Asset Reuse – The Role of Taxonomy and Metadata

Digital assets present special challenges when it comes to tagging, metadata and taxonomies. Unlike text assets, there are no clues from which to derive context - the "is-ness" and "about-ness" of the asset.

There is also the challenge of subjectivity. An image has specific meaning to individuals based on their experience, mindset and expectations. Different people will describe assets in different ways.

In this session, we'll show how assets can be tagged effectively with metadata defined with reuse in mind. We'll review case study examples to illustrate how faceted search can be supported by well constructed taxonomies and how users need to be trained to tag and to retrieve images based on the taxonomy.

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January 28, 2010 - 2:00 - 3:30 EST

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Speakers

Stephanie Lemieux

Advisory Board Member , Earley & Associates

Stephanie has a Masters in Library and Information Studies (MLIS) from McGill University, specializing in knowledge and content management, taxonomy, and information architecture. For several years, Stephanie was the Taxonomy Practice Lead with Earley & Associates. She is now the Director of Search & Content Management at the Yellow Pages Group (Canada).

Projects she worked on while at Earley include the development of a global corporate taxonomy and its implementation in a content management system, the creation of faceted search taxonomies for large e-commerce websites, and a digital asset management taxonomy.

Henrik de Gyor

Digital Asset Manager (K12 Inc.) , K12 Inc.

Henrik de Gyor is currently the Digital Asset Manager at K12 Inc. (www.k12.com) in Virginia. K12 is a leading online education company. Henrik is in charge of the daily operations, future expansion and implementation of their DAM solution. Currently, K12 uses their DAM within product development, marketing, operations and subsidiaries. Prior to being at K12, Henrik was a staff photographer and photo editor working on newspapers, magazines and annual reports in the Washington DC area. Henrik was also an adjunct professor teaching core classes at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Henrik blogs on a regular basis about DAM in the user and administrator perspective at www.anotherdamblog.com

Diane Burley

Industry Specialist (Nstein Technologies) , Nstein Technologies

Diane Burley is an online media pioneer having put two of the nation’s first daily newspapers on the Web in 1995. A digital media specialist adept at using technology to improve the entire content lifecycle, from creation through consumption. A rare combination of technologist and former journalist, Burley matches technological & digital publishing solutions to everyday business challenges.

Burley has been putting brands on the Web since 1995, including daily metro newspapers, radio stations, NHL sites and her own contemporary design site, PureContemporary.com. An accomplished and award-winning writer, Burley produces and hosts a monthly webcast for Nstein Technologies, publishes the blog Silicon Valet and is a frequent speaker at industry events.

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