How do you measure a taxonomy?
The next Taxonomy Community of Practice call is on Wednesday
April 26th,
2006 at 2:00 PM EST. Cost is $50 per attendee. Register for
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Metrics and Measurement are very broad areas. (Ambiguous
terms?) What are we
measuring? What is the significance? What are the
qualitative versus
quantitative approaches to measuring the effectiveness of a
taxonomy?
People engaging in taxonomy projects need to approach
measurement from two
perspectives. 1. How well is the taxonomy performing? and 2.
What are the
costs associated with maintenance, updates and application
of the taxonomy?
This session will focus on the first issue with some high
level approaches
to the second. Though we can't get into detailed ROI
analysis (ROI is
dependent on much larger issues around specific business
problems that are
being solved) we can give you approaches to measuring
various aspects of
your taxonomy project.
. How do we measure the value of a taxonomy?
. How can we estimate costs associated with indexing?
. What are some ways of measuring effectiveness?
. How can we make the business case credible?
. What are some ways to develop baselines?
Search effectiveness, business case metrics, usability
testing
We are taking a broad brush approach during this session.
We'll hear from Ron Daniel of Taxonomy Strategies, Lynn
Boyden of Symantec
and Christine Connors of Raytheon.
About your presenters:
Ron Daniels is an expert on XML industry standards, an
active member of the
XML and metadata standardization communities, and a noted
digital library
researcher. He chaired the PRISM (Publishers Requirements
for Industry
Standard Metadata) working group (prismstandard.org), and is
acting chair of
the XML Linking working group. He has been a member of the
RDF working
groups, and has co- edited numerous specifications including
PRISM,
XPointer, three IETF RFCs, and the first two Dublin Core
(dublincore.org)
reports.
Lynn Boyden is an Information Architect with Symantec, Inc.,
specializing in
the development of user experience of information retrieval
and search. She
has worked in a wide variety of positions, most relevantly
as an information
architect with a number of interactive agencies in the Los
Angeles area.
During these stints she worked with such clients as the
Library of Congress,
Citibank, LSI Logic Storage, and Magnetek. With Chris
Chandler, she teaches
Information Architecture in the graduate program in
Information Studies at
UCLA. She holds her Masters in Library and Information
Science from UCLA,
with a specialization in the organization of information and
the
user-centered design of information systems. She is one of
the original
instigators of the Information Architecture Slam.
Christine Connors is Raytheon's Metadata Architect, part of
Corporate IT's
Information and Knowledge Management Strategic Initiative.
The goals of the
program are to provide continuity through the information
life cycle and
implement easy to use tools for information publishing,
retrieval and
storage. She leads the Knowledge Representation Team, which
won the 2003
Raytheon Excellence in IT Award for Collaboration and
Knowledge Management.
Christine has been a member of SLA since 1999, and is also
affiliated with
ASIS&T. Christine earned a B.S. in Theatre Arts
Management from Ithaca
College and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from
Simmons College.
Join the free taxonomy community of practice yahoo group
If you have problems registering on line, please contact
Monique deVries at
Earley & Associates. monique earley.com, 406-370-1716 or
406-273- 5431.
Earley & Associates provides organizations with taxonomy
strategy,
development and implementation services to support content
management,
knowledge management, e commerce, enterprise integration,
portal and
compliance initiatives.
Sincerely,
Seth Earley
Earley & Associates, Inc
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