A reminder of ISKO-UK's first afternoon
meeting of 2017, following on from our AGM.
Making KO Work: integrating taxonomies
into technology
We meet at the British Dental Association, 64
Wimpole Street, London W1G 8YS, starting at
14:30 on
Tuesday March 14th 2017.
Beforehand is the ISKO UK AGM, starting at
13:30, and after the main meeting all are
invited to stay on for networking, wine and
nibbles, kindly sponsored by
Mekon.
Findability, navigability and interoperability –
all can be boosted via taxonomies that are well
integrated into technology supporting the
functionality that the business and the end
users require. A sophisticated taxonomy may
provide for faceted structures, synonym control,
relationships between terms and/or concepts,
links to definitions and other business-oriented
attributes. But all too often the downstream
software proves incapable of storing the
structure properly or exploiting the taxonomy
capabilities in a user-friendly search
interface.
“Making KO Work” explores the opportunities and
the pitfalls. The options for a variety of
scenarios and technologies will be described by
speakers with practical experience of taxonomy
integration.
Marc Stephenson of Metataxis asks whether and
how to implement taxonomies in SharePoint,
taking a warts-and-all view of the opportunities
and the challenges.
Joe Pairman of Mekon then shares ideas on the
use of templates so that authors can tag their
content easily, with benefits for personalized
content delivery, analytics and quality control,
as well as entirely new applications.
Drawing on his experiences of implementing a new
information and records management system for
Aberdeen Harbour, Chris Jones will talk about
the challenges of getting KO techniques to work
with IT systems, especially for search.
Alan Flett of Smartlogic then considers the
merits of an applied taxonomy framework to
handle the storage and manipulation of
taxonomies before they are output into
applications.
As usual the afternoon will be FREE for ISKO
members and full-time students, and just £40 for
non-members. For more details please go to
http://www.iskouk.org/content/making-ko-work-integrating-taxonomies-technology
and book your place.
Please pass this invitation on to any colleagues
who may be interested. Non-members are welcome
also as observers at the AGM.
Hoping to see you there,
Liz Marley
Publicity, ISKO-UK
www.iskouk.org