Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Team Blog : Taxonomy/Tagging Starter Kit for SharePoint Server, also at the Sharepoint blog
Microsoft has made a kit available for Sharepoint that makes it easier to have taxonomy and tagging. The tagging allows authors to tag items and to also have controlled vocabularies on particular multi-valued properties. Users can incorporate the controlled vocabularies into searches and also search by tags.
In the default configuration, users cannot tag items on the fly (although I suspect that they could change taxonomy values if they have permissions.)
I used to work (engineering) at an ECM company, so using the phrase ‘controlled vocabulary’ in place of taxonomy for this is somewhat second nature. Since I took a lot of classification classes at the Information School, it’s interesting to see how companies implement these concepts. It could be interesting if these features became widely available in Sharepoint.
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For a way to classify documents and list items, then filter on these classifications have a look at Rapid for Sharepoint http://www.rapid-for-sharepoint.com/free-sharepoint-taxonomy.htm
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There are some tools on the market, that allows to implement MULTIPLE taxonomies for your SharePoint portal (WSS/MOSS), so you don’t rely too much on main navigation.
SharePartXXL offers an extension with cross-site centrally managed, tree-style categories that can be used in all lists and libraries to categorize the content using different taxonomies, e.g. organizational, by products or geographically. Metadata from categorized content can be shown in dynamic category-based sites for navigation, related items are shown in the items detail view resulting in some kind of browsable corporate knowledge network.Please check it out:
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