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Taxonomy Boot Camp
Sharing Solutions: Taxonomy Across Boundaries
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Dates: November 2 - 3, 2015
Where: JW Marriott Washington DC • Washington, DC
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Taxonomies are powerful tools used by a wide range of professionals, from marketers to data scientists, for solving diverse problems from navigation to product information management. This year’s
Taxonomy Boot Camp is about highlighting taxonomy's many faces and sharing practical solutions in different real-world environments
Taxonomy Boot Camp is the only conference dedicated to exploring the successes, challenges, products, and development of taxonomies. Share your experiences, knowledge, and work with taxonomies, ontologies, folksonomies, content labeling systems, and other mechanisms for organizing information at this one-of-a-kind boutique learning and networking event.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Taxonomy/ontology modeling and development best practices
- Taxonomy governance & adoption
- Techniques for maintaining taxonomies (analytics, testing, etc.)
- Information architecture and user experience (navigation, content publishing, etc.)
- Metadata modeling and management (role of taxonomy)
- Auto-categorization and other tagging techniques
- Taxonomy management/development software selection and use
- Working collaboratively with stakeholders, content and IT teams
- User research & usability
- Implementation of taxonomies and metadata in specific content management applications (including DAM, CMS, SharePoint, etc.)
- Getting buy-in and proving ROI of taxonomy
- Big data & big taxonomies – dealing with volume
- Linked data, ontologies, semantic technology
- Managing multi-lingual vocabularies
To participate in
Taxonomy Boot Camp as a possible speaker, or to suggest a speaker, please submit your proposal no later than March 27, 2015.