S4: Enterprise Content Architecture: How to Organize and Manage Your Unstructured Data

Many organizations have robust data management operations but fall short when it comes to streamlining and integrating enterprise content. Content spreads across repositories, unstructured and difficult to manage across various contributors and channels. A unified Enterprise Content Architecture (ECA) helps structure, describe, organize and harmonize content assets across the enterprise, making them easier to manage, share and deliver effectively according to various needs and channels. This workshop will explain how ECA fits with Information Architecture and cover the main elements involved in developing an ECA, including:

Content strategy – planning for reuse & efficiency.
Semantic interoperability – enterprise taxonomy and metadata.
Content modeling across functional/technical divisions.
Taxonomy as a service.

We will use case studies to see how these different approaches come together to create unified content architecture.

Stephanie is a consultant and passionate advocate of taxonomy, search and other marvellous pursuits in content organization. She uses her taxonomy powers to help organizations big and small create better information environments. Stephanie has been working in the information management industry for nearly a decade. Prior to focusing her energies on Dovecot Studio, she was a senior consultant and taxonomy practice lead with Earley & Associates where she worked with such organizations as Best Buy, AstraZeneca, American Greetings and Motorola. She speaks, blogs and writes whenever she can to help spread the good taxonomy word. You can find her most recent work in the 1st volume of Information Management Best Practices – “Integrating Taxonomy and Content Management”. Stephanie has a Masters degree in Library and Information Studies (MLIS) from McGill University with a specialization in knowledge management.