New Ways to Think About Taxonomy The role of taxonomies in Your Organization UIE Virtual Seminar Thursday May 7 th , 1:30 PM ET Seth Earley 781-820-8080 [email_address] Stephanie Lemieux 514-804-7833 [email_address]

Taxonomy? What taxonomy?

Goals of a taxonomy Allow for knowledge discovery Improve usability of applications as well as learnability of applications Reduce the cost of delivering services, developing products and conducting operations Improve operational efficiencies by allowing for reuse of information rather than re-creation Improve search results and applicability (both precision and recall)

Allow for knowledge discovery

Improve usability of applications as well as learnability of applications

Reduce the cost of delivering services, developing products and conducting operations

Improve operational efficiencies by allowing for reuse of information rather than re-creation

Improve search results and applicability (both precision and recall)

Topics for the talk Why taxonomy is foundational to all enterprise applications Taxonomy and metadata explained Using taxonomy to improve search and navigation CMS, DAM, Faceted Search, Query Disambiguation, etc Case studies and examples How to explain the value to colleagues

Why taxonomy is foundational to all enterprise applications

Taxonomy and metadata explained

Using taxonomy to improve search and navigation

CMS, DAM, Faceted Search, Query Disambiguation, etc

Case studies and examples

How to explain the value to colleagues

Case Studies MOTOROLA, Inc. Taxonomy, content management & IA Taxonomy & faceted search Taxonomy for personalization & community

New Ways to Think About Taxonomy The role of taxonomies in Your Organization UIE Virtual Seminar Thursday May 7 th , 1:30 PM ET Seth Earley 781-820-8080 [email_address] Stephanie Lemieux 514-804-7833 [email_address]