Steffan - This answer is more around the functional, tool-based part of your question and less around the creating a taxonomy part. You can use Interwoven's extended attributes to assign metadata to items. You can retrieve these values programmatically, so they can be useful in a variety of ways (e.g., personalization) and retrieved in a variety of formats (e.g., XML, flat-file, db, etc.).
As long as you can come up with a taxonomy through the usual methods (i.e., you do not desire or need a taxonomy building product), I think you will be fine. We have implemented this kind of scheme and fed the content and metadata to many different types of consumers, including ATG and BEA. While not strictly portal software, they were being used to run highly customized portal sites. Hope this helps. Sincerely, Bill Schneider Director, Content Management Ness Technologies www.ness-usa.com 703-464-0133 x125 703-464-0138 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [cms-list] Taxonomy & Personalization/Customization Hi all - I just subscribed based on a friends tip. I am currently heading up a project implementing a Portal Product. We have Intervowen installed and one of the business needs is to create role based personalization. This is a large company. We dont have a taxonomy defined, nor do we use extended attributes to tag any of our data. The Meta Tagger provided by IW is too expensive for these folks. My quest is to find a off the shelf taxonomy product which I can marry with my content to provide personalization and customization to users. Although I realize that to define a detailed taxonomy, it will require human intervention or definition as content is created and stored, I am under the impression there are decent products on the market which may help me get to this goal. Some of the product websites I have reviewed are Mohomine, Entrieva, Verity, Autonomy and Wordmap. Any thoughts? Sincerely, Stef --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- -- http://cms-list.org/ more signal, less noise. -- http://cms-list.org/ more signal, less noise.
