Workshop: Patrick Lambe

Workshop Title: From Taxonomies To Social Tagging  
Stream: Workshop
Presenter:
Name Patrick Lambe
Organisation Straits Knowledge
Title Principal Consultant & Founding Partner
 
Short Biography
Patrick Lambe is President of the Information and Knowledge Management Society based in Singapore, and Founding Partner of Straits Knowledge, a research and consulting firm specialising in information and knowledge management. His new book is Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisation Effectiveness (Chandos, 2007). One of Asia’s most respected knowledge management practitioners, Patrick was originally trained in Library Science. He arrived in KM via a second career in training and development, and has been based in Singapore for 16 years. Patrick is also an Adjunct Professor in KM at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

 

About Workshop
In this workshop we will explore the five main purposes for a taxonomy: structure & organise; establishing common ground; spanning organisation boundaries; sense-making; discovery of risk and opportunity. We'll learn how to identify the appropriate taxonomy strategy for each need, and we'll contrast the structured taxonomy building approach with the apparently unstructured social tagging. We'll explore the conditions in which social tagging can be used both to support structured taxonomies, and also to support information retrieval and discovery outside formal taxonomy structures.


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