Ian Davis
At Dow Jones, Ian delivers solutions for global clients. Projects include: assessments, metadata and vocabulary strategy and creation, search and browse support, and asset tagging. Ian also manages www.taxonomywarehouse.com - a large resource for licensable vocabularies.
Ian spent 13 years developing vocabulary and indexing for images at Corbis and Photonica. Ian lead Corbis" UK image cataloguing division. At Photonica, Ian created e-commerce websites and developed vocabularies underpinning classification and retrieval of all image content. This included an English thesaurus and its localisation into five languages.
Ian tweets and blogs about information management and extols the virtues of findability at conferences.
Articles by Ian Davis:
Image Findability: Improving through Tags
Monday, 31st August 2009
As image content proliferates and gains in importance to organisation, making it findable continues to be a challenge. Ian Davis provides a helpful list of image attributes to consider in developing your own approach, and points out the inherent challenges in the task.
Image Findability: Improving through Tags [ABSTRACT]
Monday, 31st August 2009
As image content proliferates and gains in importance to organisation, making it findable continues to be a challenge. Ian Davis provides a helpful list of image attributes to consider in developing your own approach, and points out the inherent challenges in the task.
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