Enterprise Search Survey

Enterprise Search Survey
Sue Feldman, research VP, content technologies at IDC, and Michelle Manafy, editor of EContent magazine, the Enterprise Search Sourcebook, and conference programmer for the Enterprise Search Summit Invite you to participate in a short (2-4 minute) survey about enterprise search tool selection. They will present the results at the Summit and on the [...]

Search Solutions Jumpstart Series

From time to time we organize a free educational conference call series on search, taxonomy or content managment. Next month, we’ll be running our Search Series.
Register at http://www.earley.com/Searchjumpstart2008.asp

Taxonomy Project RFP Considerations

We recently had a prospect ask what they needed to consider as part of their taxonomy RFP. Here are some things to include:

1. Specific approaches to taxonomy development: steps for term extraction, approaches for automated and manual content audit procedures…

Wordmap and Taxonomy Management

Here is a terrific article written for Content Wrangler. http://thecontentwrangler.com/article/wordmap_makes_taxonomy_creation_simple/

Taxonomies and Mental Models

One of the biggest challenges to maintaining quality and value in a taxonomy lies in keeping interests aligned and resolving conflicting perspectives. By its nature, a taxonomy attempts to reconcile diverse perspectives – those of various types of users, engaging in diverse tasks. It also needs to support the needs of merchandisers who [...]