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What is a controlled vocabulary and how it can be used to improve infomation management

By Andreas Maratheftis on Saturday, 17 of March , 2007 at 11:58 pm

informationmanagement.jpg“A controlled vocabulary is a way to insert an interpretive layer of semantics between the term entered by the user and the underlying database to better represent the original intention of the terms of the user.” (http://www.boxesandarrows.com/)
 When labelling and organising information in an organisation several times there are linguistic issues  between users of how to label  those information, due to the fact different people find different words that they can understand and interpret better.
These issues are a result of several differences which could be:
• Language
• Culture
• Understanding
• Metaphors
• Confusion in terminology
• Acronyms

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Category: Business, General Web, Uncategorized

Software (Projects) Quality

By Andreas Maratheftis on Saturday, 17 of March , 2007 at 11:46 pm

software qualityQuality should be the focus and an embedded requirement throughout the project lifecycle, from proposals, to requirements specifications, graphic designs, systems design, coding, testing, deployment and support.
This will allow the organisation to:
• Make re-usable code
• Readable code
• Consistency across all modules
• Code can be easily understood by new developers or developers that were not involved with the project
• Minimises bugs
•  Faster bug solving
• Better maintenance
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Category: Business, Software

Why your Ecommerce site fails?

By Andreas Maratheftis on Wednesday, 7 of March , 2007 at 2:52 pm

ecommerce-nueronic.com andreas maratheftisMany of you have successful e-commerce sites that generate income. However is your site generating profits? Is it generating the forecasted ROI? Is your business plan and your business model robust enough  to sustain your organisation? Scalability? Growth? Customer satisfaction?
If you are wondering why your site does not generate enough revenue, you are not attracting visitors the reasons could be there - but a number of entrepreneurs just don’t see it.

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Category: Business, E-commerce

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