This post includes comments on most of Mike Doane’s video course, “Integrating Taxonomies in SharePoint 2010 — Part One. One of the reasons for building taxonomies for SharePoint 2010 is to use Term Sets, and, as required, to create custom term sets that can be applied to Document Libraries by selecting a set of terms […]
Using Site Columns to Successfully Reuse Terms in SharePoint 2010 to Support Planned Taxonomies
These comments apply to the remainder of a video training course on Taxonomy for SharePoint 2010, offered by Rehmani Consulting, Inc. on SharePoint-Videos dot com: “Integrating Taxonomies in SharePoint 2010 — Part One.” The author of this series, and a subject matter expert on this topic, is Mike Doane, principal at Term Management, LLC. Mike […]
Terms can be Merged, Deprecated and Moved with the Term Store Management Tool for SharePoint 2010
With this post we wrap up our commentary on the seventh video course included in our SharePoint 2010 curriculum, Manage Enterprise Metadata with Taxonomy Management in SharePoint 2010. The title of this course is Building Taxonomies in SharePoint 2010 – Part Two. Access to this video course on building taxonomies for SharePoint 2010 is restricted […]
Taxonomies for SharePoint 2010 Must be Secured Against Inadvertent Disruption from Unauthorized Changes, or Reuse of Terms
The change and/or reuse functions provided by the Term Store Management Tool for SharePoint 2010 should also be manage under a taxonomy governance plan. Copying terms is an easy process. Once again, one simply right clicks on a term and selects “copy”. However, it is important to note that the copied term will not appear […]
It Makes Sense to Build a Governance Policy for Taxonomies in SharePoint 2010
Organizations that opt to implement taxonomy as a method of organizing text data stored in SharePoint 2010 should produce a governance policy for taxonomy, itself. In all likelihood, the Term Store Management Tool that is provided with SharePoint 2010 will be used to build, manage, modify and othewise work with term groups, and terms for […]
An Implementation Plan for Taxonomies for SharePoint 2010 Should Contain a Content Audit
As Mike Doane notes, a successful implementation plan for supporting SharePoint 2010 with taxonomies should include a content audit. Mike Doane is the author of a set of video training content on Managing Enterprise Metadata with Taxonomy Management in SharePoint 2010, which is available for purchase on our web site, SharePoint-Videos dot com. This content […]
Looking Further at Successful Planning for Taxonomies in SharePoint 2010
In the last post to this blog we looked at the importance of including representatives from line of business (LOB) units within the project planning team for taxonomies. An additional reason for including these users in the planning group, as Mike Doane points out in his video training class on this topic, Planning Taxonomy Implementation […]
A Technical Overview of Taxonomies in SharePoint 2010
In this series of blog posts we are looking, once again, at a set of video training courses published on SharePoint-Videos dot com during the winter of 2011 and 2012 on SharePoint 2010 Taxonomy. In the first two posts of this series we spent time presenting the value, from a line of business (LOB) perspective, […]