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Creating a Taxonomy Governance Checklist
Due to the dynamic nature of human language, good taxonomies must grow and change over time in order to remain relevant to their target users: people trying to find information. The life cycle of a taxonomy includes much more than just the initial taxonomy development, and keeping this entire life cycle in mind from the … 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
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
Building Taxonomies in SharePoint 2010 (in Chinese)
We’ve addressed using non-English languages in SharePoint 2010 term store to develop taxonomies before, but in this video, guest blogger Jackson Chang addresses the capability directly (in Mandarin) to explain how the General Business Taxonomy from WAND, Inc. – translated into Chinese – can be used in SharePoint. Jackson focuses on the Accounting & Finance … Continue reading
Importing a Prebuilt Taxonomy in the SharePoint 2010 Term Store
There is some skepticism to using a ‘pre-baked’ taxonomy, mostly by professional taxonomists. But, most companies can get a lot of benefit by starting with a taxonomy that’s 80% correct from Day 1, and then iterating on terms and terminology over time. Don’t believe us? Try the free General Business Taxonomy from WAND (download) and … Continue reading
Impacting Search with the SharePoint 2010 Term Store
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is one way that search results can be improved. We think that SEO can be helpful, but one sure way to improve search results within your company’s intranet portal, for example, is to skip all the fancy SEO formulas and do some basic metadata “ground work” by creating and adding tags … Continue reading
