Multilingual Taxonomies

Cost: $50.00

Date:

May 30, 2007 - 12:00 - 1:00 EDT

In our global business environment, it often isn't enough to derive a taxonomy in English. Frequently, international businesses and websites now need multilingual 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 multilingual taxonomy? 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 multilingual taxonomies.

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Speakers

Denise Bedford

Senior Information Officer (World Bank Group) , World Bank Group

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.

Marti Heyman

Global Taxonomy Manager (Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu) , Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

Marti Heyman has been involved in the design, development, implementation and on-going maintenance of controlled vocabularies in corporate settings for the past 15 years. She also has extensive experience in the application of more generalized knowledge management practices and techniques to meet varied business challenges. She has worked in a range of for-profit settings, including a major chemical manufacturing corporation, a boutique e-business technology firm and one of the Big 4 audit & professional services firms. She earned both her MLIS and MBA degrees from Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Seth Earley

President & CEO , Earley & Associates

Seth has been implementing content management and knowledge management projects for over 14 years and has been in the technology field for 20 + years. He is founder of the Boston Knowledge Management Forum and co-author of Practical Knowledge Management from the IBM Press. He is former adjunct professor at Northeastern University, where he taught graduate courses in Knowledge Management Infrastructure and E Business Strategy. He was 2009 Co-Chair of the Metadata Committee, NDIIPP Education and Outreach for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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