One of the most exciting capabilities in SharePoint 2010 is the Managed Metadata Service and the support of taxonomies and the Term Store. Taxonomy helps direct a user through the ocean of data - specific concepts can be found and related between individual concepts; keyword search can be put in the appropriate context so that relevant results can be returned. Workflow-driven content organization can be supported centrally ensuring corporate governance policies are followed.
To help you get started, General Business Taxonomy developed by WAND is available for download, free of charge. General Business Taxonomy by WAND can be easily installed in SharePoint 2010 term store. Combined with the
Longitude AutoClassifier with taxonomy manager, it can be integrated so that a document added to SharePoint will be automatically tagged with the appropriate metadata from the taxonomies.
The General Business Taxonomy consists of around 500 terms describing common functional areas that exist in most businesses. It can be imported into the SharePoint 2010 term store within minutes and will provide a great starting point for customers looking to build a corporate vocabulary and take advantage of the Managed Metadata Service. In addition to this freely available download, WAND provide a range of taxonomies covering a variety of domains including Products and Services, Local Search, Enterprise, Jobs, Travel, Medical, Lifecycle, Finance and Records Retention.
Request your General Business Taxonomy now by filling out the form below.
Why this matters Taxonomies have great value and can be used within your knowledge management system, a website with a business database search, an e-commerce website, corporate intranets, etc.
Those that are familiar with the taxonomy capabilities in SharePoint 2010 know that though it provides you with a great functionality to expand your tagging and classification initiatives, the initially empty Term Store required quite a bit of a preparation work.
If you don't yet have a well-defined corporate taxonomy and don't know where to start when it comes to developing taxonomy, you can utilize the work of professional taxonomists who have already modeled most business.