What is Gilbane Boston? Is there a fee for your workshop? Is their a link?
On 11/27/09 3:26 PM, "Dave Cooksey" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, everyone. > > If you're heading up to Gilbane Boston next week, you might be > interested in a half-day workshop on taxonomy validation that Joseph > Busch of Taxonomy Strategies and I are giving. We'll cover various > validation methods, perform some hands-on exercises, and present a few > case studies. > > The workshop is scheduled for Tuesday, December 1, 2009 from 1-4PM. A > description of the workshop is below. > > Hope to see you there, > > Dave Cooksey > Founder & Principal > saturdave UX Consulting > > > > How to Validate a Taxonomy: Pre-Conference Workshop > Joseph A. Busch, Founder and Principal, Taxonomy Strategies LLC, San > Francisco, CA > Dave Cooksey, Founder and Principal, saturdave, Philadelphia, PA > > Taxonomy is the key to being able to supply the appropriate content in > dynamic user interfaces, and supporting information services such as > personalization (e.g., portals), syndication (e.g., RSS feeds), and > harvesting (e.g., search). Taxonomy development and validation is on > the application development critical path. Effective methods to > provide confidence that the taxonomy is good enough to develop against > is very important. > > The goal of taxonomy testing is to confirm that a taxonomy will work > for tagging content, publishing content and finding and using content > in user-facing applications. This workshop will discuss taxonomy > validation methods, present case studies that go beyond typical card > sorting, and conduct hands-on activities for participants. The > validation methods include: > > Working with most popular queries, > Delphi card sorting, and > Task-based usability. > > The workshop will describe metrics for successful task completion and > consensus, and best practices around evaluating validation test > results. Topics covered during the workshop will include: > Need for taxonomy validation > Description of typical card sorting methods > Strengths and weaknesses of typical card sorting methods > Alternative card sorting methods > Benefits and outcomes of alternative sorting methods > Analyzing and presenting results of alternative sorting methods > Case studies of alternative methods > Description of task-based test methods > Strengths and weaknesses of task-based methods > How to analysis and present results of task-based methods > Case studies of task-based validation methods > > The audiences for this workshop are librarians, information > scientists, information architects, application developers, systems > analysts, quality assurance managers, project managers, and business > analysts. > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
