Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp Call for Speakers
Submissions deadline 29 May - SUBMIT HERE

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp is back online on Wednesday 7 October, maintaining momentum for our global audience of taxonomists and knowledge managers after the success of last month’s London conference.

We’re looking for speakers for this popular half-day online session, and we’re especially interested in case studies, best practices, innovations and career stories describing building, managing and working with taxonomies, ontologies, and knowledge graphs, and how you're implementing AI and the semantic layer to best effect.

Suggested Topics (but don’t feel limited by this list!)

Building Taxonomies

Evaluating external taxonomies
Mapping and interoperability; combining or splitting taxonomies
Multilingual taxonomies
Design decisions about structure, style, display, granularity

Managing Taxonomies

Governance
Maintenance
Resourcing, teams or working solo
Software; procuring, implementing, training, open-source or lower-cost options
Validation, testing, metrics
Getting a taxonomy project going from scratch
Demerging/merging taxonomies

Working with Taxonomies

Sector and domain-specific taxonomies
Taxonomies for ecommerce, enterprise search, content management, digital asset management, data platforms
How taxonomies support/interact with UX, information architecture, content strategy
SharePoint and O365 metadata and taxonomies
Automatic classification with taxonomies
Tagging; adding metadata to content and data
Data and domain modelling; reference data; metadata models
Case studies, success stories, ‘lessons learned’ stories

Ontologies, Knowledge Graphs, AI and the Semantic Layer

Machine learning, entity extraction, text analytics, NLP
The semantic layer - taxonomies and other knowledge representation tools joined-up across the organisation
The role of taxonomies in driving generative AI implementation
Taxonomies for Large Language Models (LLMs)
Ontologies and knowledge graphs

Career Development

Career stories eg getting started in taxonomy work; moving into taxonomies from another field
Use cases and problem-solving
Beginner and entry-level tips, insights and explainers
Tips, tricks and best practices
Workshop suggestions
Working with stakeholders, subject matter experts, taggers. Working with non-specialist colleagues
Working as a solo taxonomist; visibility; persuasion skills; project management

Submissions deadline 29 May - SUBMIT HERE

Programme Chair

If you have any questions or would like to discuss your idea, please email our programme chair, Helen Lippell, Taxonomy and Search Consultant, UK. E: TBCL-Speakers@infotoday.com

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