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DEREK STURDY
Biography:
Derek worked with Christine Miskin
at Legal Information Resources, producing the first legal electronic
metadata databases (especially Legal Journals Index ).
When LIR was taken over by Sweet & Maxwell, they continued
their partnership, launching Current Legal Information ,
and then creating the editorial and database systems for Westlaw
UK . In 2000, Derek founded Granite & Comfrey to
provide effective KM systems for law firms. This firm has
now joined Tikit, the largest integrator of legal systems in the
UK, where Derek continues his work in legal KM. Their taxonomy and
KM software is now in use in some sixty organisations.
Title:
Mantelpiece ornament or practical
toolkit: the role of the taxonomy in KM
Summary:
It has taken years to get taxonomies
out of the library, and into the organisation. The topic
is now fashionable, and conferences and courses abound. How
much benefit are organisations really deriving from taxonomy work?
Librarians have the opportunity, perhaps the duty, to lead
their organisations through the muddle and the hype to useful results,
relevant to KM.
Choice
of formats, up to the delegates on the day
This session
will therefore concentrate on the practicalities of getting good
returns on taxonomy investment in an organisation. We can
run this as a workshop, or as a lecture, ie a presentation of ready-made
suggestions. This will be decided by you, the participants,
on the morning by majority vote. For each topic, there will
be a short introductory piece setting out some decisions that need
to be made, followed either by a workshop discussion, or a presentation
of suggested solutions, about those decisions and how to reach them.
Workshop
/ presentation content
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taxonomy purpose - the business case as a KM tool.
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taxonomy politics -
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who should and should not be involved;
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how to manage taxonomies.
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taxonomy construction - strictly in relation to the business case
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size and segment decisions;
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how much do you need to build from scratch, or modify (ie are
organisations really different?);
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term selection and term relationships.
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taxonomy deployment - meeting
the business case and KM needs.
Suggested
excluded content
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detailed academic construction
stuff - eg whether (and why) parent child relationships should be
distinguished as generic or partitive and things like that;
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the semantics and definitions of the terms thesauri, taxonomies,
classification schemes, controlled vocabularies, ontologies, subsumptive
relationship trees, etc - it is suggested that we lump these terms
together, in a single concept called "taxonomies", for
the purpose of this session.
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