Now in its fourth year, Taxonomy Boot Camp (TBC) London is once again looking to showcase the very best insights and practices in taxonomy and related work. As always, TBC welcomes contributions from taxonomy practitioners, technologists, researchers, developers, information architects, product managers, and so on. Taxonomies are at the heart of the event, but TBC covers a vast array of topics around knowledge and information management. What makes this a great community is the desire to ‘sort out stuff’, whether it is content, navigation, data or metadata.
Subsequently, TBC is looking to build a program, which caters for anyone who uses or manages taxonomies, ontologies, search applications and semantic data, and more. Based on audience feedback from last year’s event, there is a great demand for presentations in the following fields, so if this is your area of interest, please send in your ideas (and see below for a longer list of topics):
- Taxonomies for absolute beginners; the theory, the reality and the best practices
- Enterprise search, including structured data, relevance engineering and day-to-day management
- The ethical aspects of working with models and classifications
- Knowledge graphs and blockchain - cutting through the hype to get to what’s useful
Talk lengths:
- 20 minutes
- 35 minutes
- 10 minutes - perfect if you want to introduce your work and share a few key thoughts
- Suggestions for full or half day pre-conference workshops, especially topics for beginners
These are some of the very many areas TBC is interested in (but please do not feel constrained by these!):
- Taxonomy modeling and development
- Ontology creation and usage
- Ethical aspects of working with models and classifications
- Knowledge graphs
- Taxonomy maintenance and governance
- Getting your taxonomy adopted and used in the organization
- Information architecture, website navigation
- Enterprise search, especially relevance engineering
- Intranet and digital workplace
- Metadata management
- Tagging - anything from auto-categorization to manual application
- Taxonomy software
- Working collaboratively with stakeholders, content and IT teams
- User research
- Search engines and taxonomy (especially e-commerce search)
- Blockchain technologies
- Implementation of taxonomies and metadata, e.g. DAM, CMS, SharePoint, etc
- Getting management buy-in, and selling the value of taxonomy projects
- Big data analytics and the use of taxonomies
- Linked data and semantic technologies
- Managing multilingual vocabularies
- NLP, machine learning, text analytics, AI
Submit your ideas here.
The deadline for submitting proposals is 5 April 2019. Click here.
If you have any questions or if you would like to discuss your idea before submitting, please email TBCL-Speakers@infotoday.com.
