SLATES
Encyclopedia
SLATES is an initialism that describes the business impacting capabilities, derived from the effective use of Web 2.0
technologies in and across enterprises. It stands for Search, Links, Authorship, Tags, Extensions, Signalling.
, which was defined by Professor Andrew McAfee as “the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between companies and their partners or customers”[1]
The term in the context of SLATES refers to effective use of such search queries in and across enterprise boundaries, for example being able to enhance the "discoverability of information which drives re-use, leverage and ROI" [2]
or Uniform Resource Identifiers to forge deep interconnections between the information content across collaborating enterprises.
to enable the rapid and humanistic organisation of data across collaborating enterprises.
Exemplified by the phrase "other customers who purchased this book also purchased these books"
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Exemplified by the Online Status of other users in instant messaging clients
Web 2.0
The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...
technologies in and across enterprises. It stands for Search, Links, Authorship, Tags, Extensions, Signalling.
Origin of the term
This acronym refers to the key elements in the phenomena often referred to as Enterprise 2.0Enterprise 2.0
Enterprise 2.0 is the use of "Web 2.0" technologies within an organization to enable or streamline business processes while enhancing collaboration - connecting people through the use of social-media tools. Enterprise 2.0 aims to help employees, customers and suppliers collaborate, share, and...
, which was defined by Professor Andrew McAfee as “the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between companies and their partners or customers”[1]
Search
Traditionally defined as
A web search query is a query that a user enters into web search engine to satisfy his or her information needs. Web search queries are distinctive in that they are unstructured and often ambiguous; they vary greatly from standard query languages which are governed by strict syntax rules.
The term in the context of SLATES refers to effective use of such search queries in and across enterprise boundaries, for example being able to enhance the "discoverability of information which drives re-use, leverage and ROI" [2]
Links
The use of LinksHyperlink
In computing, a hyperlink is a reference to data that the reader can directly follow, or that is followed automatically. A hyperlink points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document. Hypertext is text with hyperlinks...
or Uniform Resource Identifiers to forge deep interconnections between the information content across collaborating enterprises.
Authorship
The ability of all individuals within and across enterprises to easily publish content accessible across collaborating enterprises.Tags
The use of TagsTag (metadata)
In online computer systems terminology, a tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information . This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching...
to enable the rapid and humanistic organisation of data across collaborating enterprises.
Extensions
The mining of previously gathered data relating to a users activities or transactions which allows users to be guided to initiate other valuable activities or transactions.Exemplified by the phrase "other customers who purchased this book also purchased these books"
Signalling
The sending of alerts to users of the changing state of an element of interest ie using RSSRSS
-Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats...
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Exemplified by the Online Status of other users in instant messaging clients