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X-WR-CALNAME:PhillyCHI August Meeting - Taxonomy
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070823
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070824
SUMMARY:PhillyCHI August Meeting - Taxonomy
LOCATION:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
DESCRIPTION:Time: 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
\n* Meet & greet from 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
  *
\nLocation: Berger Auditorium, Skirkanich Hall, University of Pennsylvan
 ia
\n210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
\nMap: http://www.facili
 ties.upenn.edu/mapsBldgs/view_map.php3?id=140
\nRSVP (not necessary, but ni
 ce): phillychi@gmail.com
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\nMost folks know that taxonomy has something t
 o do with organizing things.
\n
\nFewer folks know, however, that taxonomy 
 is the practice of classification, which originally began as a science devo
 ted to the classification of living organisms. And that over time, taxonomy
  has become known as the classification of just about anything and everythi
 ng.
\n
\nEven fewer get down into the weeds and do the work that goes beyon
 d simple classification that makes today’s information systems work: meta d
 ata, facets, controlled vocabulary, thesauri, synonym maps, ontologies, tag
 ging…
\n
\nWhat’s troubling about this divide between those that know about
  taxonomy and those that don’t is the very importance of taxonomy. For lots
  of designers & developers, the applications, websites, and interactive pro
 ducts they spend their waking hours creating could not function without wel
 l-structured, carefully crafted information structures.
\n
\nThis month’s P
 hillyCHI meeting will explore in practical and tangible terms the specific 
 ways taxonomy is important to the work we do. We will discuss the design, i
 mplementation, and governance of taxonomies by examining four real-world ca
 se studies:
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\n    * a user-centric catalog for a large e-commerce site a
 nd its impact on the user experience
\n    * a content-heavy non-profit inf
 ormation site
\n    * a system processing data through controlled vocabular
 ies and thesauri
\n    * a consumer-driven search engine
\n
\nPlenty of tim
 e will be reserved at the end of the meeting for discussion, so bring your 
 tough questions!
\n
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\nPanel Participants
\nDave Cooksey, GSI Commerce, I
 nc
\nEmily Culbertson, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
\nJohn Ferrara, Vangu
 ard
\nJulia Remick, Yellow Book USA
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