Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group
Discussion and Business Meeting
1/25/2009 Sunday
08:00 am – 10:00 am (Discussion from approximately 8:00-9:15)
CCC Korbel Ballroom 4F
Topic: Taxonomy Development
The discussion will be led by Laura Dorricott, Project Delivery Manager of Taxonomy Services for Dow Jones Client Solutions. We invite you to participate in this discussion, also to stay afterward for the business portion of the NRMIG meeting.
Laura is requesting information about topics of interest and/or questions in advance. Please leave a comment on this blog post that contains your thoughts, interests, and questions on taxonomy development and related issues in general or in your library. That way Laura can incorporate them into her presentation and we can be sure to include them in the discussion. Thank you!
I’d like to hear Laura discuss the differences she sees in the way libraries view vocabularies and vocabulary development and the way commercial entities view these issues. Is there something we can learn from those differences? I’d also like to hear a bit about how the commercial sector evaluates return on investment for this kind of development.
I’d like to hear about approaches to internationalisation and localisation, and whether Laura believes a taxonomy can ever be fully internationalised.
Will the notes be available via this site? I’m in the wrong nation to attend…
A summary/write up of the program should be available here following the end of the conference.