Term Management, LLC
SharePoint 2010 taxonomy
Taxonomy Governance: The Term Update Process
The importance of good taxonomy governance was discussed in our last post: Creating a Taxonomy Governance Checklist. With a complete taxonomy in-hand, intelligent governance must be brought to the process of maintaining your taxonomy as new terms are suggested and added. Your organization can design a workflow or policy for term updates by following these … Continue reading
Import a Term Set in the SharePoint 2010 Term Store
Importing a term set into an existing term group can be achieved in seconds. Within given term groups you can import built-out term sets with the click of a button. From this point it is a matter of moving selected terms from your imported set to desired locations. Check out this video to see the … Continue reading
Creating and Managing Taxonomies in SharePoint 2010: User Questions, Part II
This is the second of two posts addressing common, and important, questions concerning the development and implementation of a taxonomy in SharePoint 2010. (Here’s the previous post). Sure, we know SharePoint 2013 is just around the corner (and already here for some of you), but lots of companies are just now getting up to speed … Continue reading
Creating and Managing Taxonomies in SharePoint 2010: User Questions
Sure, SharePoint 2013 is almost here (and already here for some of you), but lots of companies are just now getting up to speed with SharePoint 2010 – and getting their first exposure to the Term Store Management Tool, the tool for creating and managing taxonomies within SharePoint. This is the first of two posts … Continue reading
Information Management: 5 Taxonomy Must Haves for Your Organization
The art and science of organizing terms and terminology – taxonomy — has recently gained a lot of buzz in corporate tech circles, so much so that taxonomy consultants like me no longer have to explain that we’re not about stuffing recently expired animals to make them appear life-like in their natural habitat. No, we don’t have … Continue reading
Using Taxonomies for Auto-classifying Content in an ECM
Ever wonder how to make your taxonomies more useful in your enterprise content management system? For example, if you’re using SharePoint 2010, taxonomies can be made more valuable if content can be auto-classified. Check out how the taxonomy management tool DataFacet can be used to precisely control how auto-classification can be done to get better search results. Watch it here.
Using “Other Labels” to Help Users Apply the Correct Tag
When tagging documents in SharePoint 2010, users may not always know the correct terms to apply – the terms established in your Term Store taxonomy. They may, to take a classic example, want to apply the term “doctor” when “physician” is the right tag to use. You can help them out! Point users to the … Continue reading
When It’s Time to Retire Tags: Deprecating Taxonomy Terms in SharePoint 2010
Building a taxonomy in SharePoint 2010 can be a fantastic way to improve content findability and enhance search results using tags from a controlled vocabulary. However, even the best tags can sometimes go awry, and have to be removed from use. But wait! Don’t delete those out of date terms from your Term Store taxonomy. … Continue reading
Tips and Techniques for SharePoint Users: SLA Webinar
In this webinar hosted by the Competitive Intelligence and Taxonomy Divisions of the Special Libraries Association, Mike Doane and Zena Appelbaum present an exciting range of advice, tactics, and techniques for the users of SharePoint intranets. Zena leads off with some useful tips for anyone starting and managing a SharePoint project, and then Mike does … Continue reading
Taxonomy Champions
It’s always good to have someone on staff at a client site when working on the analysis phase of a taxonomy project. It used to be unheard of, but now it’s becoming more the norm to have at least one person in the room from a client’s staff who knows the importance of a taxonomy … Continue reading
