2007-03-29 Date & Time: Wednesday, Mar 28th - 2:00 to 3:30 PM EST. Cost: $50 per participant. Register for the session at http://www.earley.com. Please register by March 27th to ensure that you receive the instructions in time. Description: 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. Presenters: Seth Earley (Earley & Associates), Giovanni Piazza (KnowledgeWeb Program, Center for Business Knowledge, Ernst & Young LLP), Jayne Dutra (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA) 189 Join us for this month's Taxonomy Community of Practice conference call on taxonomy and knowledge management. Wednesday, Mar 28th - 2:00 to 3:30 PM EST. 2007-03-28 true http://earley.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/189 findability, knowledge management, taxonomy, thesaurus structures