Hello all,

Those of you with an interest in publishing, or, more widely the dissemination of expert knowledge, may be interested in the following from the British Computer Society Electronic Publishing Specialist Group.

Liz Orna is a well-established consultant in information management. Her talk ties in with the publication of her recent book, but the talk can be downloaded and listened to for free (our Windows Media players will run MP3 files). Well worth a listen. Thesauruses get a mention!

Best wishes

Edmund Lee

Standards and Guidelines Manager

English Heritage

-----Original Message-----
From: British Computer Society Electronic Publishing Specialist Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Conrad Taylor
Sent: 04 January 2006 09:05
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Subject: Audio recording of "Making Knowledge Visible" talk

If you wished you'd been able to attend the talk which

Liz Orna gave to the BCS Electronic Publishing Specialist

Group on the evening of 1st November 2005, you can now

listen to our recording of it.

"Making Knowledge Visible" is the name of Liz's latest book

and was also the title of her talk.  She focuses on the way

in which organisations manage the creation of Information

Products -- the various publications, documents and Web sites

through which an organisation encapsulates and shares its

knowledge resources.

To be successful in creating good Information Products, an

organisation has to be mindful of the actual needs of all of

the stakeholders.  Yet, as Liz pointed out, that is precisely

where so many organisations fall down.  Often there is failure

to recognise that the organisation itself is a stakeholder in

how it manages its knowledge and information resources.

Liz argues for closer collaboration between three key kinds

of information professional:

  -- information managers

  -- ICT specialists

  -- information designers (which includes editors)

Liz Orna has a lively style of presentation and deliberately

creates breaks in which she engages the audience in discussion.

EPSG managed to record all of this perfectly and has produced

the talk and discussion as a tight 1 hr 4 min audio package

that you can download and listen to again and again.

The recording is available in MP3 and AAC formats for download

from the following page:

http://www.epsg.org.uk/meetings/orna2005/index.html

Conrad

EPSG Secretary