Taxonomies and Search - Conference call April 27th 2PM EDT

Sorry for the cross posts.  Bob Doyle suggested that I post this
announcement here.  (Even if you are not interested in the fee based calls,
be sure to join the free Taxo Community of Practice group.
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TaxoCoP/join )


Taxonomy Community of Practice Conference Call Wednesday April 27th 2005 2 -
3:30 PM EDT

"It's hard to find people to talk to about this stuff... " - Donna Slawski,
Manager of Indexing & Taxonomy, Scholastic

This month: Taxos and Search

* Leveraging Taxonomies to Improve Search Results with Seth Earley, Amy
Warner and Kathryn La Barre

How are taxos applied to search?

One of the reasons to create a taxonomy is to improve search results.  What
are the ways this can
be done?  What are the factors that need to be considered?  How do search
engines leverage
taxonomies?  You've heard of faceted search, how can faceted search be
implemented?  Faceted search
will leverage metadata contained in documents, but what about less
structured documents?  What about
tuned or targeted search?  How can a taxo be leveraged with search engines?
(We will look
specifically at Verity)  In this session, we'll hear from taxo consultants,
a researcher and an
implementation engineer.

Presenters include:
- Amy Warner, PhD: Amy is principal of Lexonomy, a leading consultancy who
advises Fortune 500
companies, government agencies and academic institutions on taxonomy
projects.

- Kathryn LaBarre - Doctorial candidate and researcher specializing in
faceted search

- An implementation engineer from a leading search engine vendor (this is
NOT a product pitch...)

Session cost - $50  Register at
https://www2.2checkout.com/2co/buyer/purchase?sid=314750&product_id=6&quanti
ty=1
Or by going to www.earley.com/events.htm


The taxonomy community of practice (Taxo CoP) is a group of professionals
who meet to share ideas and experiences around taxonomy management and
application. There is no cost to joining the Taxo CoP community discussion
forum.  Click here to subscribe
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TaxoCoP/join (You'll need a Yahoo id).

Future Community of Practice Calls:

* May - Compliance and Records Management
* June - Deriving a Taxonomy
* July - Best Practices in Deployment
* August - Topic Maps and Taxonomies
* September - Classification and Text mining
* October - Enterprise meta data models
* November - Governance models
* December - Retrospective indexing
* January - Semantic Technologies
* February - Content Management Integration
* March - Verb versus Noun Taxonomies

Seth

Seth Earley
Earley & Associates, Inc
781-444-0287
781-820-8080 cell
www.earley.com