Taxonomy and Knowledge Management

Cost: $50.00

Date:

March 28, 2007 - 12:00 - 1:00 EDT

The challenge of knowledge management (KM) is one of context - understanding the user's frame of reference, mental model, problem solving approach, and stage of process in their work task. We also need to know something about how people describe the things that they need and their understanding of labels that are placed on documents. All of this points to the need for terminology that is consistent and multiple facets that can be used to describe all of these various attributes of content; in other words, a taxonomy.

As organizations attempt to deal with information chaos, managers are recognizing the need for organizing principles that can extend across silos, span the enterprise, and connect disparate systems and repositories. Taxonomies and other categorization schemes offer solutions to that chaos.

Hear how taxonomy projects are essential to knowledge management initiatives, and learn how to apply thesaurus structures to improve the findability of explicit knowledge, and the ability to locate and leverage tacit expertise.

Speakers will focus on the need to define context and process, and how to apply taxonomies to effectively support KM.

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Speakers

Jayne Dutra

Manager (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) , NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jayne Dutra manages software development tasks in the areas of content management, search, portals, and information architecture at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she also serves as knowledge management process owner. She was recently assigned as the IT project lead for an initiative to better organize and classify the Lab's work, employee capabilities and skill sets, leading to the development of a business domain taxonomy and associated semantic tasks including search, dashboard reporting and other mechanisms for targeted content delivery of business intelligence.

Giovanni Piazza

Chief Knowledge Officer (Ernst & Young LLP) , Ernst & Young LLP

Currently a Global Director with the Center for Business Knowledge at Ernst & Young LLP, Giovanni Piazza is responsible for the architecture, design and implementation of KnowledgeWeb, the Ernst & Young comprehensive Knowledge Sharing family of tools, processes and architectures. He is also responsible for The EY Home Page, the firm global intranet, as well as the Enterprise Search program, the User Experience program and the Taxonomy and Metadata Management Program. Leveraging diverse architectures and platforms, KWeb, The EY Home Page and the Enterprise Search cover all Knowledge and Content Management processes (contribution, filtering, storage, in context and out of context retrieval, tool based retrieval).

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).

Taxonomy and Knowledge Management

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