Mike Lambert
Knowledge Project Officer, Global Learning & Technologies Center
Defense Acquisition University
KM practitioners needing to work with repositories of electronic content know full well the tradeoff between more structure for effective and efficient processing at the expense of user-friendliness, or less structure at the expense of computing efficiency and added complexity. They also understand the critical role that taxonomies play in effective management of content. Given that the last decade has opened the doors to a tsunami of unstructured data, we now are being presented with more sophisticated tools to assist us in maximizing value from our unstructured content. In this session, two practitioners present case studies from federal agencies that demonstrate advances in the technology for extracting knowledge from loosely structured or unstructured data and the role that taxonomy plays in the process.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
> How the Defense Acquisition University has implemented a variety of electronic mechanisms for capturing experiential content from a wide range of users
> Processing considerations when dealing with textual and multimedia content
> The importance and purpose of taxonomies for government webs and portals
> Gain insight on how to begin your agency’s own taxonomy and metadata design projects