IIL, an international provider of learning solutions in the area of project management, is walking the semantic walk. IIL have truly taken user focus to heart, as the following quotes from Kim Sienkiewicz eloquently demonstrate:
“The only time content is an asset is when it is relevant.”
“The recipient determines what is knowledge, its relevance, and its VALUE, not the provider.”
IIL is in a challenging situation. They have to deal with a bewildering array of project management standards and customize their content for the needs of their end user, all within the shortest possible time frame. They have identified structured, semantic metadata as the key tool in providing this kind of editorial agility.
This agility is built on the deep analysis of standards to build metadata models, and the curation of content within this architecture. They have already seen significant reductions to the cost of handling changes to existing standards.