InfoCurators® Webinars

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Fall 2007 Webinar Series

Join us for our newest series of Webinars. These include elements of popular courses we have been running over the past several years and some new topics in information management.

At InfoCurators, we believe that your content is your business. This Webinar will show you how to make your content work harder for your business.

• Tuesday, September 18th, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  
  Make Your Content Discoverable Using Metadata
  -and-
  The State of the Art in Open Source Search
  
  In this Two-Part Webinar.
  
  Presenters: InfoCurators' founder Kevin Hannon and George Everitt, founder of Applied Relevance

  This Webinar will teach you how to make your content more "findable". Good content can be strategic to an organization. Whether it is for your salesforce or for your HR staff, product development or marketing, having the right information at the right time can translate into closed deals and higher profits. But content can only be used if it can be found.

  Price: Free

  To register for this Webinar, email us at webinars@infocurators.com You will need to provide the following information:
  -Your Full Name
  -Company Name
  -Title
  -Work Phone Number
  -Work Email

  • Part 1: Content Discoverability Through Metadata
    How to publish content on your organization's Intranet, Extranet or Internet that will be found by the employees, business partners or customers more easily. Using real-world examples, we will demonstrate how and why content is lost or found.
    
    You will learn how to publish content strategically so that it can be found internally by employees or "Googled" by your current and potential customers.
    
    We will discuss the benefits of using automated metadata tools. We will cover how to make the most out of your enterprise-level Web publishing tools. We will also cover how to achieve world-class results without these tools.
  
  
  
  • Part 2: State of the Art in Open Source Search
    Open Source Search software has come a long way in the past couple of years. From humble beginnings as a Java-only search library, the ubiquitous Lucene and now Solr and Nutch provide a powerful enterprise class search engine that rivals the proprietary systems in terms of performance, flexibility and support.
    
    This presentation will provide an overview of how these new open source applications compare with commercial enterprise search engines.
    
    While Solr is not necessarily better than any one commercial search engine, the fact that it is open source, transparent and very well supported by the Apache community makes it an attractive option for organizations looking to minimize costs and still provide fast, stable, accurate search.
    
    Topics Include:
    • Overview of Lucene and Solr
    • Features, Advantages and Drawbacks of Solr
    • Who uses Solr?
    • Who should and should not use Solr?
    • The future of Solr
  
  
  
• October date to be announced shortly!
  
  Metadata and Taxonomies: Best Practices
  
  This Webinar will walk you through the concepts and practice of developing and utilizing metadata and taxonomies. The challenge for most people is to understand the relationship between these two, what each is for and how they interact and why. We will discuss taxonomy and metadata best practices and demystify both.

  Price: Free

  To register for this Webinar, email us at webinars@infocurators.com You will need to provide the following information:
  -Your Full Name
  -Company Name
  -Title
  -Work Phone Number
  -Work Email

  We have designed this session to be technology-neutral, so whether you are using Verity, Plumtree, Endeca or any other technology, you will be able to apply what you have learned.

  We will provide real-world examples of creating, managing and implementing metadata and taxonomies. We will discuss how to plan and implement metadata and taxonomy projects so that you get it right the first time. We will also discuss how to fix a project that may have been poorly implemented or has simply gotten off track.

  If you are planning a taxonomy or metadata project or if you currently have responsibility for taxonomies and/or metadata in your organization, you should attend this session. Our Webinar will provide you with the information you need to prepare for a taxonomy project, how best to organize the project team and what to watch out for once you begin.