Practice some of the tests and take home some useful guidelines for your own project. Anyone who is charged with managing or designing a Web site will have an interest in the live demos, tests and guidelines. Metadata and taxonomies are the two major components that allow for quick, easy navigation and excellent search results, and when they are linked to well-formed data, create the basis of successful sites. Several standards are in the process of being set and many techniques have evolved to help achieve these goals. Taxonomy management deals with the core concern of content developers and disseminators how to quickly convey meaning of a record or document so that it can be found precisely and accurately.
Ambiguity is the ever-present enemy of clarity.
As designers and developers of databases for over twenty years, presenters discuss techniques for building and managing vocabularies and metadata and define the various types of word control including rules for distinguishing among different word control formats. They also demonstrate an XML RDF solution for text management as an example of how these new standards can work together for an effective outcome. Choosing and Using the Right One Randolph Hock, Online Strategies, Author of The Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines Web search engines, Web directories, metasites all are useful tools for finding the right sites efficiently and effectively. For any question though, one tool may be much more appropriate than another. In this workshop we ll look at which to use when, and the relative strengths, weaknesses and applications of each category of tool.