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January 24, 2003 Virtual Seminar
January 24, 2003 Virtual Seminar
| 2003 Virtual Seminar Series | Taxonomies for Indexing January 24, 2003 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm ET |  |
| Your Virtual Seminar Leader. Jay Ven Eman has been with Access Innovations since late 1978. He has overseen Access' database production services where he was responsible for the design and conversion of large, legacy databases for a variety of government and commercial organizations. He writes, gives workshops, consults, and helps build large-scale, complex, information rich databases. Currently, he is helping launch a new, major scientific, technical, and medical (STM) taxonomy and knowledge domain that's being developed by Access. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Jay Ven Eman has spoken at InternetWorld, Computers in Libraries, Internet Librarian, Internet Librarian - London, Intranets, ASIS, SLA, NFAIS, AGSI - the Hague, London Online, etc. Description Presented here is a taxonomic approach to indexing databases. Taxonomies, classifications, and thesauri are defined. Distinctions are made between filtering, indexing, meta data, and subject term assignment. Taxonomies can be expensive to build, to maintain, and to use. Tools are available to ease the pain. The basics of such tools are presented including the desired features and the benefits of use. Costs of building, of maintaining, and of deploying them are presented. Guarantee The audience will know what tools are available to build, to maintain, and to deploy taxonomies. Audience members will understand what a taxonomic knowledge domain is, and is not, and why they are important. Audiences will understand the costs involved. The level of knowledge is for beginners to intermediates. V-Pak Only (The V-Pak includes an audio tape of the session, hardcopy of handouts and instructions on how to access the Powerpoint presentation on the web.) Member $95 Non Member $145 |
