WedPM4: Content Modeling: Structuring Unstructured Content for Collaboration and Reuse

A big part of your enterprise content strategy involves adding structure to unstructured content so that it can be reused or accessed in different contexts and channels, and doing so in a way that can be centrally managed and controlled. Many content management and collaboration systems (such as SharePoint) are now offering much better mechanisms for creating enterprise-wide content structures, such as content types, metadata and taxonomy. This workshop will look at content modeling for both documents and web content, giving practical tools to work with stakeholders to develop shared content structures, including:

Requirements gathering for collaboration & reuse
Content sampling & analysis
Metadata & taxonomy modeling
Content type architecture

Stephanie is a consultant and passionate advocate of taxonomy, search and other marvellous pursuits in content organization. She uses her taxonomy powers to help organizations big and small create better information environments. Stephanie has been working in the information management industry for nearly a decade. Prior to focusing her energies on Dovecot Studio, she was a senior consultant and taxonomy practice lead with Earley & Associates where she worked with such organizations as Best Buy, AstraZeneca, American Greetings and Motorola. She speaks, blogs and writes whenever she can to help spread the good taxonomy word. You can find her most recent work in the 1st volume of Information Management Best Practices – “Integrating Taxonomy and Content Management”. Stephanie has a Masters degree in Library and Information Studies (MLIS) from McGill University with a specialization in knowledge management.