This is a follow on post to Taxonomy in MOSS (SharePoint Server 2007). Not everyone knows that you can manage columns at the site collection level and then re-use them across libraries. Also, whilst SharePoint doesn’t really do taxonomy management, you can use lists to perform some lightweight management, such as controlling what values are [...]
Read more »On 21st May 2008 I presented to an audience of taxonomy professionals within the UK public sector. The last session of the day, I had 30 minutes to present on “Taxonomy within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS): Lessons learned from real-world deployments”. My aim was to briefly explain what MOSS can and cannot do [...]
Read more »Perhaps one of the loudest unspoken messages from the SharePoint conference held recently in Seattle was the need for information architects and managers to work more closely with their user interface (UI) and technology-focused counterparts. Thanks to the Internet, we are unlikely to see a downturn in the market for digital information in the foreseeable [...]
Read more »On Microsoft’s Channel 9 network, there is an interesting podcast called ‘Just Enough Architecture‘, where the interviewee provides some good recommendations about the balance between how much architecture you need versus just getting on and writing software that does something useful. The same debate could be applied to taxonomy, specifically the use of metadata properties [...]
Read more »Happy New Year! Sooo, this blog has been a little quieter than planned recently, due to other activities taking priority. But hopefully it will be back on track during January. A quick post for starters. I’ve always been more than a little bit interested in the search capabilities within SharePoint, ever since Microsoft introduced probabilistic [...]
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