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X-WR-CALNAME:TaxoCoP call - Taxonomy and Knowledge Management
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070328
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070329
SUMMARY:TaxoCoP call - Taxonomy and Knowledge Management
LOCATION:Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Date & Time: Wednesday, Mar 28th - 2:00 to 3:30 PM EST.
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\nCo
 st: $50 per participant.
\nRegister for the session at http://www.earley.co
 m. 
\nPlease register by March 27th to ensure that you receive the instruct
 ions in time.
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\nDescription:
\nThe challenge of knowledge management (KM
 ) is one of context - understanding the user's frame of reference, mental m
 odel, 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.
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 All of this points to the need for terminology that is consistent and multi
 ple facets that can be used to describe all of these various attributes of 
 content-- in other words, a taxonomy.
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\nAs organizations attempt to deal
  with information chaos, managers are recognizing the need for organizing p
 rinciples that can extend across silos, span the enterprise, and connect di
 sparate systems and repositories. Taxonomies and other categorization schem
 es offer solutions to that chaos.
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\nHear how taxonomy projects are essen
 tial to knowledge management initiatives, and learn how to apply thesaurus 
 structures to improve the findability of explicit knowledge, and the abilit
 y to locate and leverage tacit expertise.
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\nSpeakers will focus on the n
 eed to define context and process, and how to apply taxonomies to effective
 ly support KM.
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\nPresenters:
\nSeth Earley (Earley & Associates), Giovan
 ni Piazza (KnowledgeWeb Program,  Center for Business Knowledge, Ernst & Yo
 ung LLP), Jayne Dutra (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA)
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