Metadata News & Articles

Taxonomy management in SharePoint 2010 (news, site) sees a significant improvement over functionality offered by the product’s predecessors.

The information your organization generates doesn't necessarily stay relevant forever. Which is why it's important to have an information management strategy. SharePoint 2010 includes some improvements in the area of managing information using Retention Stages.

One of the biggest challenges with SharePoint 2007 was working with enterprise wide content types. Fortunately, Microsoft heard the screaming and made a major change to SharePoint 2010 that supports an enterprise approach.

A good content taxonomy goes hand in hand with good enterprise search, and SharePoint 2010 has made some improvements to their basic search experience with the help of taxonomy and metadata. Here's how.

Metadata represents the foundation for a large range of functionality across sites in SharePoint. The goal of metadata lies not in the tagging of content itself, but rather in the potential it offers for the improvement of findability via navigation.

Last June Colligo (news, site) released version 4.0 of its Contributor for SharePoint product line and it included a number of new features. Now they add even more functionality to the list including support for SharePoint 2010.

SharePoint 2010 (news, site) provides two ways to tag content: controlled and uncontrolled. In SharePoint 2010: Using Taxonomy & Controlled Vocabulary for Content Enrichment, we reviewed the options for controlled terms. Now, we look at how the social features of SharePoint 2010 provide an uncontrolled approach to tag and categorize information.

The semantic enrichment of content through the application of metadata tagging is a critical activity in the creation of a well managed and usable information environment. SharePoint 2010 brings a number of key features to this domain. Here's the how and why of SharePoint content enrichment.

A few months ago we outlined the ways that new features of SharePoint 2010 help evolve document management processes. This week, we’re showing you how SharePoint 2010 enhances eDiscovery.

Searching through outlying laptops and PCs for data, or data related to rediscovery looks to be rule rather than the exception as Iron Mountain (news, site) releases Connected Classify & Collect, a solution that can search through data in enterprise computers gather it and classify it for eDiscovery.

In two recent articles we walked you through the evolution of document management in SharePoint 2010 (news, site), and a new feature called Document Sets. In a final follow-up article we will look at how those Document Sets can be customized so as to make them more flexible and more adaptable.
 

In a recent article, Adam Harmetz, Lead Program Manager for SharePoint Document and Records Management, explained how new document management features in SharePoint 2010 (news, site) build on SharePoint 2007.

In a follow-up to that article Harmetz and Quentin Christensen, Program Manager for SharePoint 2010 Document and Records Management, outline how a new component called Document Sets will help users organize multi-document worksets.

As social tagging grows increasingly popular on the Web, organizations are curious to see how this trendy Web 2.0 approach can benefit the business world.

Some say that Microsoft hasn't really made many changes to SharePoint 2007's web content management functionality for SharePoint 2010 (news, site). While the underlying architecture may not have changed, there are some improvements that you are bound to like. Here are 8 changes to SharePoint WCM that you need to know about.

It’s always useful to get some kind of insight into the thinking behind the development of features in new software, particularly when it comes to SharePoint 2010 (news, site).

In a recent entry on the Microsoft Enterprise Content Management Team Blog, Adam Harmetz, Lead Program Manager for SharePoint Document and Records Management, explains how new features in SharePoint 2010 build on SharePoint 2007 and what we might expect in the future.