by Darin Stewart | October 12, 2011 | 4 Comments
I’ve been writing and speaking about taxonomies and metadata for a little over a decade. In the early days, my audiences consisted mostly of library science refugees seeking shelter in corporate IT departments. I considered myself lucky if there were a dozen people in the room. Last week I attended the annual Microsoft SharePoint Conference [...]
Category: Collaboration Enterprise Content Managment metadata taxonomy Tags: managed vocabularies, Metadata, microsoft, sharepoint, Taxonomy
by Darin Stewart | May 24, 2011 | 2 Comments
You may have noticed in my last post that I’ve started avoiding using the word “taxonomy.” In its place, I’ve started referring to these hierarchically organized sets of common terms as “managed vocabularies.” This may seem odd in light of the fact that I wrote a book called Building Enterprise Taxonomies but the switch is [...]
Category: Collaboration Enterprise Content Managment Knowledge Management Tags: managed vocabularies, Taxonomy
by Darin Stewart | May 19, 2011 | 2 Comments
I’ve been playing with a new core feature of Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010, the Managed Metadata Service. The MMS has at its heart the idea of managing terms and keywords and applying them to documents. So, metadata and taxonomy. Now, were I a product manager or marketing executive for Microsoft, I would be hard pressed to [...]
Category: Collaboration Enterprise Content Managment Tags: managed metadata service, managed vocabularies, Metadata, mms, sharepoint, Taxonomy
