For upcoming presentations, visit the Events page.
PDF files of presentation slides are available for most regular presentations, but not for workshops/tutorials nor for discussion panels.
“Building Taxonomies from the Bottom up and Top Down: Technologies and Collaboration” (link to PDF)
SLA Annual Conference
July 16, 2024, Kingston, RI
“A Semantic Layer Approach to Enterprise Knowledge Management and Information Findability” (poster)(link to PDF)
SLA Annual Conference
July 14-16, 2024, Kingston, RI
“Taxonomy Roundtable Discussion: The Role of Collaboration in Taxonomy Development and Maintenance” (panel)
SLA Annual Conference
July 14, 2024, Kingston, RI
“Knowledge Hubs, Knowledge Portals, and Taxonomies” (link to PDF)(link to audio recording)
SIKM Leaders Community
June 18, 2024
“Artificial Intelligence vs. Information Architecture in Taxonomies”
Information Architecture as an Academic Discipline (AIDA) Conference
June 11, 2024, Krakow, Poland
“Enterprise Knowledge Graphs: The Importance of Semantics” (link to PDF)
Data Summit Conference
May 9, 2024, Boston, MA
“Taxonomy Basics” tutorial and Q&A
Taxonomy Boot Camp London online
May 1, 2024
“Semantic Layer Technical Deep Dive” panel discussion webinar (link to video recording)
Enterprise Knowledge webinar
April 25, 2024
“The Role of Taxonomy and Ontology in Semantic Layers” (link to PDF) (link to video recording)
Progress Software webinar
April 16, 2024
“Taxonomy Creation with Context” mini workshop (link to PDF)
World Information Architecture Day Boston
March 2, 2024, Boston, MA
IA: The Promise and the Perils: “An Overview of AI and Taxonomies” (link to PDF)
CILIP K&IM Group – Artificial Intelligence webinar series
January 30, 2024
“Generative AI, Context & Knowledge Models” (link to PDF)
Enterprise AI World
November 8, 2023, Washington, DC
“Communities of Practice for Knowledge Sharing” panel: “External Communities of Practice” (link to PDF)
KMWorld Conference
November 8, 2023, Washington, DC
“Challenges in Creating Taxonomies for Learning & Development” (link to PDF)
Taxonomy Boot Camp Conference
November 6, 2023, Washington, DC
“Taxonomy 101 Workshop“
Taxonomy Boot Camp Conference
November 6, 2023, Washington, DC
“Leveraging Semantics to Provide Targeted Training Content: A Case Study” (link to PDF)
LavaCon Conference
October 16, 2023, San Diego, California
“Taxonomy Enhancements for SharePoint” (link to PDF)
Taxonomy Boot Camp London
October 11, 2023, online
“Knowledge Engineering of Taxonomies and Ontologies” tutorial
SEMANTiCS Conference
September 20, 2023, Leipzig, Germany
“The Key to Sustainable Enterprises: ESG, Knowledge Graphs, and Digitalization” tutorial co-presenter
SEMANTiCS Conference
September 20, 2023, Leipzig, Germany
“Taxonomy is What Powers DAM” panel (link to PDF)
HS DAM New York
September 14, 2023, New York, NY
“Knowledge Graphs for Information Professionals” (slides download)(recording download)
Semantic Web Company/PoolParty webinar
August 17, 2023
“Indexes, Search, and Taxonomies: Paths to Findability” webinar (recording available in late August)
Society for Technical Communication
June 27, 2023, online
“What’s on the Horizon for AI & ML?” panel
Data Summit
May 11, 2023, Boston, Massachusetts
“Taxonomy-Driven Ontology Design” masterclass (link to recording)
The Knowledge Graph Conference
May 8, 2023, New York, New York
“Taxonomy Basics“
Taxonomy Boot Camp London
April 26, 2023, online
“Knowledge Hub Creation Challenges and Solutions” (link to PDF)
CIDM’s ConVEx Conference
April 18, 2023, Baltimore, Maryland
“Taxonomy For Delivering Targeted Technical Content” (link to PDF)(link to recording)
BrightTALK: The Content Wrangler webinar
April 12, 2023, online
“An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs” (link to PDF)
The Information Architecture Conference
March 30, 2023 New Orleans, Louisiana
“Taxonomy Linking”
PoolParty Summit Recording available on this site.
March 8, 2023
“Custom Taxonomy Creation” (link to PDF)
World Information Architecture Day – New Hampshire
March 4, 2023
“Introduction to Taxonomies for Data Scientists“
Data Day Texas
January 28, 2023, Austin, Texas
“Semantic Search: Implementations in Your Enterprise” (link to PDF)
Enterprise Search & Discovery conference
November 10, 2023, Washington, DC
“Taxonomy Breaking Down Silos: Taxonomy Linking” (link to PDF)
Taxonomy Boot Camp conference
November 8, 2022, Washington, DC
“Taxonomy 101 Workshop”
Taxonomy Boot Camp conference
November 7, 2022, Washington, DC
“Using Taxonomies and Tagging to Connect Content Across the Enterprise” half-day workshop
LavaCon Conference for Content Strategy
October 23, 2022, New Orleans, Louisiana
“Enhancing Your SharePoint Term Store Taxonomy and Tagging” (link to PDF)
North American Collaboration Summit
October 14, 2022, Branson, Missouri
“Practical Tips for Setting up Taxonomy Governance” (link to PDF)
Bite-sized (virtual) Taxonomy Boot Camp London,
October 12, 2022
“Different Perspectives on Conceptual Modelling” panel (link to PDF), online, EDOC (Enterprise Design, Operations and Computing) – The Enterprise Computing Conference
October 10, 2022
“Knowledge Engineering of Taxonomies, Thesauri, and Ontologies,” half-day conference workshop
SEMANTiCS conference
September 13, 2022, Vienna, Austria
“Communities of Practice: Where Everybody Knows Your Name” panel (pdf exerpt)
SLA Conference
August 2, 2022, Charlotte, North Carolina
“Research Sources and Methodologies for Taxonomy Development” panel
SLA Conference
August 1, 2022, Charlotte, North Carolina
“Current challenges and advanced taxonomy topics” panel
SLA Conference
July 31, 2022, Charlotte, North Carolina
“From Taxonomy to Ontology” online workshop
SLA (Special Libraries Association) Continuing Education Workshops
July 14, 2022
“Introduction to Taxonomies for Data Scientists”
and
“The Future of Taxonomies – Linking Data to Knowledge”
Data Day Texas conference
June 13, 2022, Austin, Texas
“From Taxonomy to Ontology” (link to PDF)
Semantic Web Company/PoolParty webinar
May 12, 2022
“Taxonomy-Driven Ontology Design” (link to PDF)
Knowledge Graph Conference
May 5, 2022, New York, NY
“Foundation for a Knowledge Graph: Taxonomy Design Best Practices” 90-minute tutorial
Knowledge Graph Conference
New York, NY
May 3, 2022
“Revisiting, Reviewing, and Revising Taxonomies” (link to PDF)
Information Architecture Conference (IAC)
April 22, 2022
“Topics in Taxonomy Design” half-day workshop
Information Architecture Conference (IAC)
April 18, 2022
“Understanding Attributes and Taxonomies” (link to PDF)(link to video recording)
BrightTALK: The Content Wrangler webinar
April 12, 2022
“Getting Started with Taxonomies” (link to PDF) (link to video recording)
Semantic Web Company/PoolParty webinar
March 30, 2022
“Foundation for a Knowledge Graph: Taxonomy Design Best Practices” masterclass (workshop)
Connected Data World virtual conference
December 2, 2021
“Taxonomies and Text Analytics for Recommendation Systems” (link to PDF)
KMWorld/Text Analytics Forum Connect conference
November 18, 2021
“Turning a Taxonomy into an Ontology”
KMWorld/Taxonomy Boot Camp Connect conference
November 17, 2021
“Working with Semantics: Technology and Tools” NISO (National Information Standards Organization) round-table panel discussion, November 10, 2021.
“Structured Data in 2021 and Beyond” panel (link to video recording)
Data Con LA virtual conference,
September 17, 2021
“Knowledge Engineering of Taxonomies, Thesauri, and Ontologies” half-day conference workshop
SEMANTiCS conference
September 7, 2021, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Convergence & Realignment” panel presentation “Semantic Technologies for Media.” (link to PDF)
SMPTE+ virtual conference “Migrating Media & Entertainment into the Cloud: A Real-World Perspective,”
August 31, 2021
“Using Semantic Resources to Enrich Content Services,” co-presentation (link to PDF excerpt)
SLA (Special Libraries Association) Annual Conference
August, 2021
“Taxonomy Management 101” (link to PDF) (link to video recording)
Semantic Web Company/PoolParty webinar
August 4, 2021
“Data-driven Knowledge Management with Knowledge Graphs” (link to video recording)
Semantic Web Company/PoolParty webinar
Co-presented with Fredric Landqvist of Findwise
June 17, 2021
“Boost your Customer Experience in AEM with Auto Tagging” (link to PDF) (link to video recording)
Semantic Web Company/PoolParty webinar
Co-presented with Maura Moran of Mekon
May 25, 2021
“Foundations for a Knowledge Graph: Taxonomy Design Best Practices” half-day tutorial
Knowledge Graph Conference
May 3, 2021
“From Taxonomies to Recommendation Systems” (link to PDF)(link to video ecording)
Semantic Web Company/PoolParty webinar
April 29, 2021
“Connecting Users to Content: An Introduction to Taxonomy Design & Creation” workshop
IAC (Information Architecture Conference)
April 21-23, 2021
“Taxo Update: Latest in Designing & Maintaining Taxonomies” virtual preconference half-day workshop
Computers in Libraries
March 22, 2021
“Building, Enhancing, and Integrating Taxonomies” (link to PDF)(link to video recording)
The EuropeaN Data conference On Reference data and SEmantics (ENDORSE)
Publications Office of the European Union
March 17, 2021
“Improving Customer Satisfaction With Agile Taxonomy Management” (link to PDF)
Semantic Web Company/PoolParty webinar
February 25, 2021
“Ontology Design by Enriching Taxonomies” working session (link to PDF)
Data-Centric Architecture Forum
February 3, 2021
“Taxonomies, Knowledge Graphs, and AI: Delivering Targeted Learning Recommendations” (link to PDF)
Semantic Web Company/PoolParty webinar (recording)
December 15, 2020
“Taxonomy 101” virtual preconference half-day workshop.
KMWorld Connect / Taxonomy Boot Camp
Excerpted slides on “Benefits of Taxonomies” (on Slideshare)
November 12, 2020
“Berklee Music and Health Taxonomy” in the session “Challenges in Building Healthcare and Medical Taxonomies: Case Studies” (link to PDF)
SLA (Special Libraries Association) Annual Conference
October 5, 2020
“Connecting Users to Content: An Introduction to Taxonomy Design & Creation” virtual conference half-day workshop
EuroIA (the Information Architecture conference of Europe)
September 23, 2020
“Taxonomy Trends”
(link to video) SEMANTiCS Video Forum 2020
September 9, 2020
“Building Ontologies for Knowledge Discovery” (link to PDF)
Webinar
August 13, 2020
“Introduction to Taxonomies for Technical Writers” (link to PDF)(link to recording)
BrightTALK: The Content Wrangler webinar
July 15, 2020
“Taxonomy Design for SharePoint” (link to PDF)
IntraTeam Event: The European DEX Conference
March 4, 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Taxonomy Design & Creation: Solving Findability Pain Points” pre-conference workshop
IntraTeam Event: The European DEX Conference
March 2, 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Taxonomies for Users” (link to PDF)
Boston World IA Day
February 22, 2020, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Watch the video (2nd speaker, starting at 1:00:24 through 1:40:50)
“Taxonomy Projects for Internal Content Management” (link to PDF)
in the panel “Data, Data Everywhere: How Information Professionals Categorize and Systemize the Data”
SLA New England Chapter
February 12, 2020, Boston, Massachusetts
“Managing Taxonomy Tagging” (link to PDF)
Taxonomy Boot Camp
November 4, 2019, Washington, DC
“Thesauri for Indexing Support” (link to PDF)
German Network of Indexers
October 17, 2019, Frankfurt, Germany
“A Brief Introduction to Knowledge Graphs” (link to PDF)
Taxonomy Boot Camp London
October 16, 2019, London, United Kingdom
“Selecting Software for Taxonomy, Thesaurus and Ontology Management” (link to PDF)
Taxonomy Boot Camp London
October 15, 2019, London, United Kingdom
“Taxonomy and Metadata Design – Getting to Grips with the Basics” (half-day workshop)
Taxonomy Boot Camp London
October 14, 2019, London, United Kingdom
“Mapping Taxonomies, Thesauri, and Ontologies” (link to PDF)
SEMANTiCS 2019 conference
September 11, 2019, Karlsruhe, Germany
“Fast Track to Knowledge Graphs and Semantic AI“
Module 1: Taxonomies and Ontologies – Theory and Practice (morning half of full-day workshop)
SEMANTiCS 2019 conference
September 9, 2019, Karlsruhe, Germany
“Taxonomy Tools and Tool Evaluation” (link to PDF)
SLA (Special Libraries Association) Annual Conference
June 18, 2019, Cleveland, Ohio
“Introduction to Taxonomy Design & Creation” (full-day workshop)
SLA (Special Libraries Association) Annual Conference
June 15, 2019, Cleveland, Ohio
“Semaphore Knowledge Modeling with The Accidental Taxonomist” (link to PDF)(YouTube recording)
Smartlogic webinars
March 28, 2019
“Taxonomy and Metadata Design” (full-day workshop)
Technology Transfer
March 25, 2019, Rome, Italy
“Taxonomy Design Best Practices” (2-hour workshop)
VOGIN-IP-lezing “Zoeken & vinden” (Search & Find)
March 21, 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Licensing Controlled Vocabularies” webinar (recording available free to members)(link to PDF)
SLA (Special Libraries Association) Taxonomy Division
February 20, 2019
“Taxonomy Workshop: Taxonomy Development & Design Basics”
Taxonomy Boot Camp
November 5, 2018, Washington, D.C.
“Taxonomies in Support of Search,” part of the session “State-of-the-Art Taxonomies for Information Retrieval” (link to PDF)
Taxonomy Boot Camp London
October 17, 2018, London, United Kingdom
“A Brief Introduction to SKOS,” part of the session “Taxonomy Standards and Architecture” (link to PDF)
Taxonomy Boot Camp London
October 17, 2018, London, United Kingdom
“Taxonomy Fundamentals” pre-conference workshop
Taxonomy Boot Camp London
October 17, 2018, London, United Kingdom
“Taxonomies, Categories, and Tags: Controlled Vocabularies in WordPress and Beyond” (link to PDF)(link to video recording)
WordCamp Boston 2018
July 22, 2018, Boston, Massachusetts
“Creating a Taxonomy from Scratch” webinar
CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals)
July 10, 2018
“Taxonomy Consulting” webinar
American Society for Indexing webinar series (purchase recording)
May 22, 2018
“Make a Lasting Impact on Our Profession: 21st Century Standards for Indexes” (link to PDF)
American Society for Indexing Conference
April 28, 2018, Cleveland, Ohio
“Creating Thesauri and Taxonomies” workshop
American Society for Indexing Conference
April 27, 2018, Cleveland, Ohio
“Designing & Maintaining Practical Taxonomies” pre-conference workshop
Computers in Libraries Conference
April 18, 2018, Arlington, Virginia
“Customer-Focused Thesauri” CyberTour exhibit hall presentation (link to PDF)
Computers in Libraries Conference
April 16, 2018, Arlington, Virginia
“Designing Taxonomies and Metadata for Content Management” post-conference workshop
Gilbane Digital Content Conference
November 30, 2017, Boston, Massachusetts
“Applications of Taxonomy Design Best Practices” moderated panel session
Taxonomy Boot Camp Conference
November 6, 2017, Washington, D.C.
“Practical Taxonomy Creation” full-day pre-conference workshop
Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting
October 27, 2017, Arlington, Virginia
“A Tale of Two Worlds: Designing Controlled Vocabularies to Meet Specific Business Needs” within the session “Doing Taxonomy Right: Advice from Two Experts” (link to PDF)
Taxonomy Boot Camp London
October 17, 2017, London, United Kingdom
“Taxonomy Fundamentals” pre-conference workshop
Taxonomy Boot Camp London
October 16, 2017, London, United Kingdom
“Different Controlled Vocabularies for Different Purposes” presentation within the session “Taxonomies and Thesauri in Action” (link to PDF)
American Society for Indexing Annual Conference
June 17, 2017, Portland, Maine
“Thesaurus Creation and Back-of-the Book Indexing Compared” (link to PDF)
Indexing Society of Canada Annual Meeting
June 3, 2017, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
“Introduction to Indexes, Indexing, and Controlled Vocabularies” presentation within the pre-meeting seminar “Indexes for Content Findability: New Trends and Technologies” (link to PDF)
Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting
May 31, 2017, Boston, Massachusetts
“Taxonomy Fundamentals” webinar
Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Meet the author series
March 14, 2017
“Synonyms, Alternative Labels, and Non-preferred Terms” webinar (a slight variation of the Taxonomy Boot Camp London presentation) (link to PDF) (recording available free to members)
SLA (Special Libraries Association) Taxonomy Division
February 7, 2017
“Managing Mature Taxonomies: Resolving Orphan Terms” webinar (link to PDF) (recording available free to members)
SLA (Special Libraries Association) Taxonomy Division
December 12, 2016
“Designing Taxonomies and Metadata for CMS Implementation” post-conference workshop
Gilbane Digital Content Conference
December 1, 2016, Boston, Massachusetts
“How Many Synonyms Should You Have?” (link to PDF)
Taxonomy Boot Camp
November 14, 2016, Washington, D.C.
“Synonyms, Alternative Labels, and Non-preferred Terms” (link to PDF)
Taxonomy Boot Camp London
October 18, 2016, London, United Kingdom
“Taxonomy Fundamentals Workshop”
Taxonomy Boot Camp London
October 17, 2016, London, United Kingdom
“An Introduction to Taxonomies and Thesauri” (link to PDF)
American Society for Indexing Annual Conference
June 17, 2016, Chicago, Illinois
“Multiple Entry Points: Variants and Cross-References in Indexes and Thesauri” (link to PDF)
American Society for Indexing Annual Conference
June 17, 2016, Chicago, Illinois
“A Tale of Two Worlds: Designing Controlled Vocabularies for Meet Specific Business Needs,” part of the “Taxonomy Café” pre-conference workshop
SLA (Special Libraries Association) Annual Conference
June 11, 2016, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Curious Lives of Full-Time Taxonomists” panel
Taxonomy Boot Camp
November 2, 2015, Washington D.C.
“Introduction to Taxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies” Full-day workshop
SLA (Special Libraries Association) Annual Conference
June 13, 2015, Boston, Massachusetts
“Topics in Taxonomy Creation” Half-day workshop
American Society for Indexing Annual Conference
April 30, 2015, Seattle, Washington
“Thesaurus Creation and Back-of-the Book Indexing Compared” (link to PDF)
American Society for Indexing Annual Conference
April 30, 2015, Seattle, Washington
“Taxonomy Displays: Bridging UX & Taxonomy Design” (link to PDF)
Content Strategy Seattle Meetup
April 28, 2015, Seattle, Washington
“Managing Terminology: Taxonomy, Thesaurus, or Something In-Between” (link to PDF)
Taxonomy Boot Camp
November 5, 2014, Washington, D.C.
“Taxonomies: Everything you need to know to start a taxonomy from scratch” (link to PDF)
June 8, 2014, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
(An edited version was re-presented at: SLA New England Chapter meeting, October 21, 2014, Cambridge, Massachusetts.)
“Thesaurus Creation and Back-of-the-Book Indexing Compared”
(link to PDF, as updated and re-presented at the ASI national conference in April 2015.)
New England Chapter of the American Society for Indexing
April 12, 2014, Arlington, Massachusetts
Repeated for:
SLA (Special Libraries Association) Taxonomy Division
July 10, 2014, virtual/webinar
“Taxonomy Governance” (link to PDF) (just three slides prior to panel discussion)
Metadata Enhancement for Improved Content Management – Taxonomies and Governance Panel
Gilbane Conference
December 3, 2013, Boston, Massachusetts
“Testing Taxonomies” (link to PDF)
Taxonomy Boot Camp
November 5, 2013, Washington, D.C.
“Taxonomies for Auto-Tagging Unstructured Content” (link to PDF)
Text Analytics World
October 1, 2013, Boston Massachusetts
“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 Polyhierarchies and Facets 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
Repeated 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” (link to PDF)
Henry Stewart DAM NY (Digital Asset Management)
May 11, 2012, New York, New York
“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 (Special Libraries Association) New England 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” (link to PDF)
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”
SLA (Special Libraries Association) Annual Conference
June 16, 2010, New Orleans, Louisiana
“User Interfaces with Taxonomies” (link to PDF)
Usability and User Experience 2010: UXPA-Boston’s Ninth Annual Mini UXPA 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” (link to PDF)
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
“Integrating, Merging and Mapping 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 to PDF)
LINK Development – corporate seminar
January 5, 2009, Cairo, Egypt
“Getting Off to a Strong Start with Your Search Taxonomy” (link to PDF)
Gilbane Conference on Content Management
December 4, 2008, Boston, Massachusetts
“An Introduction to Taxonomies” (link to PDF)
Society for Technical Communication (STC) Boston Chapter (now New England Chapter) – Technical Editing SIG
November 13, 2008, Bedford, Massachusetts
“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” (link to PDF)
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” (link to PDF)
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”(link to PDF)
Special Libraries Association’s Click University webinar 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
“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 (now New England 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