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X-WR-CALNAME:Facets & Taxonomies - August TaxoCoP
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070829
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SUMMARY:Facets & Taxonomies - August TaxoCoP
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DESCRIPTION:We are seeing a drive toward less control and a decentralizatio
 n 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 ad
 aptability of tags? 
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\nThis month's taxonomy Community of Practice call 
 will explore these issues. We'll start with an overview of facets and facet
 ed search and then hear from Peter Bell, one of the founders of Endeca, a f
 aceted search company, about new developments in the field that allow a com
 bination of unstructured and structured tagging and classification. 
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 hen Facets Meet Wikis and Tags 
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\n"Put simply, if you're an information 
 architect, we see facets in your future," writes Peter Morville and Louis R
 osenfeld 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 Ent
 erprise 2.0. In particular, facets are being used to improve information ac
 cess 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 la
 boratory for innovations on facets in enterprise social collaboration. 
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\nPresenters: 
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\nSeth Earley 
\nSeth Earley is founder and senior con
 sultant for Earley & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in kn
 owledge, content and document management systems with a focus on taxonomy d
 evelopment and search integration. 
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\nPete Bell 
\nPete Bell is the cofo
 under of Endeca, the pioneer of the Information Access Platform and one of 
 the world's fastest growing software companies.
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