Taxonomy News & Articles

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.

We recently wrapped up a poll exploring our readership's Digital Asset Management challenges. The question was: What's your biggest Digital Asset Management challenge? The top response? Usability. Are you surprised?

We discussed the poll results with a few DAM specialists, including CMS Watch analyst Theresa Regli. Here are the highlights and take-aways.

Our hearts are thumping and adrenalin levels are high as we tell you about the just-released Day’s CQ5 WCM. To get as close as possible to a real-life experience, we went ahead and installed the software from scratch and played with it for a couple of days. It was a fun ride.

Without further due, let’s jump in and see what Day came up with after three years of WCM silence.

Climate change or global warming? Pandemic flu or bird flu? Learning or training? Should we choose the ‘correct’ words or the words people actually use?

Here at the 10th International Protégé Conference in Budapest, Hungary the word of the day is ‘ontology’.

Most folks inside these walls know exactly what that means. Most people outside these walls do not. And those of us in the content management space should have a clear idea. Certainly, as the CM and Web technologies around us evolve, we will be left behind if we don’t.

If you could download information from your brain, what would that file look like? A jumbled mess of words, thoughts and ideas, most likely. A mess so large that it would need it’s own database. A database so large that it would take a small army to manage. And that’s just your brain.

Who could possibly find the time and resources to organize all the crap…er…genius oozing from all of our amygdalas?