Sean Patrick Coon — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:50:38 GMT

In the beginning of 2001, while working in a now defunct consultancy, I found myself thrust into a position to provide a taxonomy solution for a client on a short deadline. Being the gung-ho IA I was at the time, I convinced the client that they needed to develop a multifaceted thesauri for their site to improve search and navigation (related articles) across business units.

It was a great sell, the client bought in 100% and my dangling-by-a-thread company was estatic. There was only one problem: I had never developed a CV, let alone a multifaceted thesauri to be used with a relational database. Oops.

Thanks to Samantha Bailey, Peter Morville and their one-day “bottom up” workshop in midtown Manhattan, I was able to get the project headed in the right direction and develop the beginning of a detailed thesauri.

Last week I told Lou that I was going to steal the new book. Could I possibly lease it for half price? ;-)

-Sean

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