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"Back-of-the-Book Indexing and Thesaurus Creation Compared"
New England Chapter - American Society for Indexing
Spring 2013, TBD
Past Presentation and Workshops
"Structuring Content for the Web: Taxonomies for E-Commerce"
(link to PDF)
Gilbane
Conference
November 29, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts
Pecha Kucha - Taxonomies & Ontologies: "From Accidental Taxonomist
to Accidental Ontologist" (link
to PDF)
Taxonomy
Boot Camp
October 17, 2012, Washington, D.C.
"Taxonomy Fundamentals Workshop" - Polyhierarchies and Facets
(link
to PDF excerpt)
Taxonomy
Boot Camp
October 16, 2012, Washington, D.C.
"Taxonomies for Text Analytics and Auto-Indexing" (link
to PDF)
Text
Analytics World
October 4, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts
"Mapping, Merging, and Multilingual Taxonomies" (link
to PDF)
SLA
(Special Libraries Association) Annual Conference
July 16, 2012, Chicago, Illinois
Re-presented at:
SLA New England Chapter Fall Conference
October 13, 2012, Southbridge, Massachusetts
"Building Taxonomies for Search and Autocategorization" pre-conference
workshop
Enterprise
Search Summit
May 14, 2012, New York, New York
"Turning the Tables on Print Textbooks: Opportunities & Challenges
in Converting Print Tables of Contents to Digital Taxonomies"
Henry
Stewart DAM NY (Digital Asset Management)
May 11, 2012, New York, New York
"Where and when to use Third-Party Tools: Managing the Term Store
and Auto-Classification in SharePoint 2010" (link
to PDF; link
to .wmv recording)
Concept
Searching and Project Performance Corporation Webinar Series: Webinar
3
May 8, 2012, virtual/webinar
"Taxonomy and Thesaurus
Creation" pre-conference workshop
American
Society for Indexing Annual Meeting
April 19, 2012, San Diego, California
"Creating Multi-Lingual Taxonomies" (link
to PDF)
Gilbane Conference
December 1, 2011, Boston, Massachusetts
"Hierarchies & Polyhierarchies: Is More Better?" (link
to PDF)
Taxonomy
Boot Camp
October 31, 2011, Washington, D.C.
"An Introduction to Enterprise Taxonomies" (link
to PDF)
SLA (Special Libraries Association) Annual
Conference
June 14, 2011, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Building Taxonomies for Search and Auto-Categorization" pre-conference
workshop
Enterprise
Search Summit
May 9, 2011, New York, New York
"Building Retail Website Taxonomies: Not as Easy as it Seems"
(link
to PDF)
Part of the panel session: "Shaking the Tree: Case Studies of Taxonomies
in Action"
American
Society for Indexing Annual Meeting
April 30, 2011, Providence, Rhode Island
"Taxonomy and Thesaurus
Creation" pre-conference workshop
American
Society for Indexing Annual Meeting
April 28, 2011, Providence, Rhode Island
"Taxonomy Updating, Combining, and Translating" (link
to PDF)
Taxonomy
Tuesday
April 19, 2011, Washington, D.C.
"An Introduction to Taxonomies for the Accidental Taxonomist"
SLA
Boston Chapter / SLA
Taxonomy Division
March 30, 2011, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Taxonomy
Displays" (link to PDF)
SLA Taxonomy
Division Webinar
January 20, 2011, virtual/webinar
Pecha Kucha - Enterprise Search & Taxonomies: "Search in the
Wind" (link
to PDF)
Taxonomy
Boot Camp
November 15, 2010, Washington, D.C.
Indexing and Tagging to Improve Discovery: "Taxonomies & Folksonomies"
(link to PDF)
National
Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS)
Improving the User Search Experience
October 13, 2010, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"From Indexer to Accidental Taxonomist"
New
England Chapter of the American Society for Indexing
October 16, 2010, Lexington, Massachusetts
"Taxonomy Made Easy: An Introduction to Taxonomies for the Accidental
Taxonomist" (link to PDF)
SLA (Special Libraries Association)
Annual Conference
June 16, 2010, New Orleans, Louisiana
"User Interfaces with Taxonomies" (link
to PDF)
Usability
and User Experience 2010: UPA-Boston's Ninth Annual Mini UPA Conference
June 9, 2010, Waltham, Massachusetts
"Thesaurus Creation vs. Index Creation" poster presentation
(photo)
American
Society for Indexing Annual Meeting
May 14-15, 2010, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Taxonomy and Thesaurus
Creation" pre-conference workshop
American
Society for Indexing Annual Meeting
May 13, 2010, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Tools for Taxonomies"
Enterprise
Search Summit
May 11, 2010, New York, New York
"Taxonomies – How Can They Improve Enterprise Search?"
Boston KM Forum
Café – Table-talking KM Challenges
April 29, 2010, Waltham, Massachusetts
"Marketing Your Indexing Business" panel discussion
New
England Chapter - American Society for Indexing
April 17, 2010, Chelmsford, Massachusetts
"Cross Mapping Taxonomies"
Earley
& Associates Taxonomy Community of Practice
March 3, 2010, virtual/webinar
"Combining Multiple Controlled Vocabularies" (link
to PDF)
Taxonomy
Boot Camp
November 20, 2009, San Jose, California
"Taxonomies and Controlled
Vocabularies" full-day workshop
Simmons
College Graduate School of Library and Information Science Continuing
Education
October 24, 2009, Boston, Massachusetts
"Navigation Taxonomies; What Works Well (or Doesn’t) with
Your Content System?"
Boston Knowledge
Management Forum
June 18, 2009, Waltham, Massachusetts
"Web Site A-Z Indexes"
Boston
IA Ten-Minute Accessibility Talks
April 30, 2009, Waltham, Massachusetts
"Creating Web Site Indexes" Half-day seminar
New
England Chapter of the American Society for Indexing
March 21, 2009, Worcester, Massachusetts
"Taxonomies for Search & Retrieval"
LINK Development - corporate
seminar
January 5, 2009, Cairo, Egypt
"Getting Off to a Strong Start with Your Search Taxonomy"
Gilbane Conference
on Content Management
December 4, 2008, Boston, Massachusetts
"An Introduction to Taxonomies"
Society for Technical
Communication (STC) Boston Chapter - Technical Editing SIG
November 13, 2008, Bedford, Massachusetts
Summary
on pp. 8-9 of the Broadside, chapter newsletter
"Taxonomies for Human Versus Auto-Indexing" (link
to PDF)
Taxonomy
Boot Camp
September 25, 2008, San Jose, California
"Taxonomy for Search & Discovery"
Boston Knowledge
Management Forum
June 25, 2008, Waltham, Massachusetts
"Taxonomy-Powered Discovery: Who Says You Need An Expert"
Enterprise
Search Summit
May 20, 2008, New York, New York
"Taxonomy and Thesaurus Creation" full-day pre-conference workshop
American
Society for Indexing Annual Conference
April 30, 2008, Denver, Colorado
"Creating Web A-Z Indexes"
Society for Technical
Communication (STC) SpaceTech Chapter
April 23, 2008, Melbourne, Florida
"The Freelance Taxonomy Business"
New
England Chapter of the American Society for Indexing
April 5, 2008, Chelmsford, Massachusetts
"Creating Indexes on Websites and Intranets"
Special
Libraries Association's Click U Live! Program
March 5, 2008, virtual/webinar
"Creating Web Site A-Z Indexes"
Golden Gate Chapter of the
American Society for Indexing
November 11, 2007, San Mateo, California
"Making Decisions in Creating Taxonomies"
Taxonomy
Boot Camp 2007
November 8, 2007, San Jose, California
Workshop:
Website Indexing
Netherlands Indexing Network
August 4, 2007, Driebergen, Netherlands
“Website indexing” seminar
Society
of Indexers 50th Anniversary Conference: Golden Retrievers
July 14, 2007, London, England
“Creating Website Indexes”
pre-conference workshop
American
Society for Indexing Annual Conference
May 24, 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Designing a Web Site for Freelance Indexing Services”
“Writing for ASI” panel presentation
American Society for Indexing Annual Conference
May 25, 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Teaching Information
Findability to Kids”
Simmons College
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
March 24, 2007, Boston, Massachusetts
“Creating
Indexes on Web Sites and Intranets”
Society for Technical Communication (STC)
February 7, 2007, virtual/webinar
“Freelance Indexing”
Boston
Chapter of the Editorial Freelancers Association
December 5, 2006, Arlington, Massachusetts
“Freelance Indexing”
Central
Massachusetts Chapter of the Editorial Freelancers Association
November 15, 2006, Stow, Massachusetts
“Creating A-Z Indexes for Web Sites, Intranets, and Online Courses”
“Findability” Panel
Documentation and Training 2006
October 4, 2006, Boston, Massachusetts
“Indexing
Nonfiction for Children” panel presentation
Fall conference of the New England Chapter of the American Society for
Indexing.
September 30, 2006, Waltham, Massachusetts
"Creating Website Indexes” post-conference workshop
American
Society for Indexing/Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada joint
conference
June 17, 2006, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
“Designing
a Web Site for Freelance Indexing Services”
Spring meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Society
for Indexing.
April 29, 2006, Chelmsford, Massachusetts
“The Usability of A-Z Indexes for Site Search and Findability”
Annual Boston UPA Chapter Mini-Conference:
Usability and User Experience 2006
March 30, 2006, Natick, Massachusetts
“Indexing
and Taxonomy Creation”
Earley & Associates Taxonomy Community of Practice
March 15, 2006, virtual/webinar
“A-Z Indexes for Content Searching”
Fall 2005
CM Pros Summit
November 28, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts
“Web
Site Indexing: Techniques and Issues”
Fall Conference of the New England Chapter of the American Society for
Indexing.
September 24, 2005, Worcester, Massachusetts
“A-Z Indexes for Superior Site Searching”
Society for Technical
Communication (STC) Boston Chapter - Online Information SIG
March 3, 2005, Lexington, Massachusetts
“Controlled Vocabulary in Periodical Database Indexing”
Annual Conference of the Golden
Gate Chapter of the American Society for Indexing: Thesaurus Development
and Controlled Vocabulary as Indexing Tools
March 21, 1998, Berkeley, California