2007-05-31 In our global business environment, it often isn't enough to derive a taxonomy in English. Frequently, international businesses and web sites now need multi-lingual 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 multi-lingual? Seth Earley, along with Marti Heyman and Denise Bedford, will discuss strategies, solutions, and describe case studies and examples about how to manage multi-lingual taxonomies. Presenters: Seth Earley (Earley & Associates), Denise Bedford (World Bank Group, Georgetown University, University of Tennessee, Kent State University), Marti Heyman (Phena Partners) 223 Join us for this month's Taxonomy Community of Practice conference call on multi-lingual taxonomies. Wednesday, May 30th - 2:00 to 3:30 PM EDT. Cost: $50 per participant. 2007-05-30 true http://earley.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/223 governance, multilingual, taxonomy