Facets & Taxonomies - August TaxoCoP

Date: August 29 2007

Location: Virtual

Website: http://www.earley.com/_August2007.asp

About This Event

We are seeing a drive toward less control and a decentralization of term creation. Think tags and collaboration tools like wikis and blogs. Is there a hybrid process? Can we get the precision of facets with the adaptability of tags?

This month's taxonomy Community of Practice call will explore these issues. We'll start with an overview of facets and faceted search and then hear from Peter Bell, one of the founders of Endeca, a faceted search company, about new developments in the field that allow a combination of unstructured and structured tagging and classification.

When Facets Meet Wikis and Tags

"Put simply, if you're an information architect, we see facets in your future," writes Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld in the newest edition of O'Reilly's "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web" (aka The Polar Bear.) Faceted classification has moved beyond early adopters in the past few years, and is now graduating to more advanced projects. One such use is enterprise social collaboration, aka Enterprise 2.0. In particular, facets are being used to improve information access for employee-generated content like wikis and blogs. And this content is categorized into facets with folksonomies, or user- generated tags. But without centralized authority, how can facets ensure security, tame chaos, and coexist with curated content? In this session, we'll show results from Endeca's own internal deployment of such a system, which has served as a laboratory for innovations on facets in enterprise social collaboration.

Presenters:

Seth Earley
Seth Earley is founder and senior consultant for Earley & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in knowledge, content and document management systems with a focus on taxonomy development and search integration.

Pete Bell
Pete Bell is the cofounder of Endeca, the pioneer of the Information Access Platform and one of the world's fastest growing software companies.

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