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Download - November 2008: Search Integration
Cost: 50$
Description:
Paul Wlodarczyk will talk about truly integrated enterprise search is a challenge. Users of enterprise search expect the simple and seamless user experience that Google has brought to the web. However, this is difficult within the enterprise because information is created, stored, and managed within standalone applications, separated by organizational silos, and lacks consistent organization and metadata to drive relevant search results. This presentation will explore how combining a search integration framework with a unified approach to taxonomy management can create an enterprise search platform that delivers highly relevant search results in a conversational user experience.
Then Seth Brewer will talk about a company with 30,000 employees recently developed an intranet space to assist employees with finding products (office supplies, rental cars, etc.) and services (research, conference planning, etc.) Meta-data was used to define each subject and their associations to related policies, procedures, contacts, etc. The meta-data then becomes a description of the taxonomy which search uses to build the navigation structure. Results are presented as complete web pages with full navigation and links to all related materials. Because the content is organized via tagging, it can be sliced and diced to build multiple taxonomies.
Main Points:
• Using content-managed meta-data to create relationships
• Building navigation structures using search
• Delivering dynamic, taxonomy driven pages via portal
About Your Presenters:
Paul Wlodarczyk
As The Content Guy, Paul Wlodarczyk helps clients compete by improving their content lifecycles - business processes and workflows that span the collection, collaboration, authoring, assembly, styling, review, localization, publishing, reuse, and management of unstructured content. Paul brings over 25 years’ experience in content lifecycle operations, consulting, and software development, with expertise in the areas of enterprise content management, knowledge management, technical publishing, localization, collaboration, user interface design, learning technologies, and information worker productivity. Paul serves organizations in discrete and process manufacturing and in the life sciences, high tech, aerospace, retail, energy, and airline industries. Paul is a frequent speaker for events and contributing writer for publications by various organizations’ events including AIIM, ATG Insight, DaraTech PLANT, DocTrain, IBM Information On Demand, Linked Data Planet, ebizQ, LISA Summit, Microsoft Executive Circle, TechLearn, National Public Radio, the Society for Technical Communicators, the Society for Applied Learning Technology, and the World Batch Forum. Paul earned an MBA from the William E. Simon School of Business, and holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. He maintains a blog as The Content Guy at paulwlodarczyk.wordpress.com.
Seth Brewer
Seth has more than a decade of web design and development experience. He began his career as a print designer but jumped to the web as soon as it emerged. As Creative Director for a start-up design studio Seth oversaw the development of over 200 websites. When his second child was born Seth became an independent consultant to be able to spend more time at home. As a consultant he advised large corporations on web strategy, information architecture, and user experience design.