W9: Taxonomy Development and Implementation

Organizations are embarking on taxonomy initiatives to serve a wide variety of audiences and purposes. Fundamentally these are metadata management projects, but business sponsors rarely see them in that light. In many cases, taxonomy initiatives are seen as separate from enterprise data initiatives. This workshop will go through taxonomy project processes for derivation, validation, testing, integration, rollout and governance. Attendees will be able to understand how taxonomy projects should be integrated with overall metadata management and the best ways to communicate their role to business users and sponsors.

• Taxonomy drivers
• Information architecture versus Semantic architecture
• Project definiition
• Audience selection
• Data gathering techniques
• Content review processes
• Term Extraction
• Creating search and navigation scenarios
• Search engine and content managmenet system integration
• Testing and validation
• Training and Rollout
• Governance and integration with enterprtise metadata management