Presentation given to Sydney Sharepoint User Group

1. “ What Goes Where?” Sharepoint, Taxonomies & Metadata Matt Moore Innotecture

2. Taxonomies

3. “ Orange Blossom” Traminer Riesling South Australia 2008 $8.10

11. http://www.epicurious.com

12. “ Orange Blossom” Traminer Riesling South Australia 2008 $8.10

13. “ Who needs taxonomies anyway, we’ve got search!”

15. Using Taxonomies

16. http://www.flickr.com/photos/raster/3380860520/ Experts

17. http://www.flickr.com/photos/raster/3380860520/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/3315685906/ Experts Machines

18. http://www.flickr.com/photos/raster/3380860520/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/3315685906/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ntr23/730371240/ Experts Machines Users

19. Advantages Disadvantages Experts High-quality & consistent outputs Can handle ambiguity Expensive Time-consuming May not understand user perspective Machines Scalable Quick Poor at ambiguity Costs may vary Users Cheap Scalable (ish)‏ Rarely consistent Often Uninterested

23. Building Applying Consuming Experts Buy off the shelf OR Build based on analysis Manual Tagging against Taxonomy - Machines Semantic and/or Concept Analysis Automated Categorisation Ontology-based Processes Users Tagging & Folksonomies Manual Tagging (whatever)‏ Tag Clouds & Visualisation Search

26. Enter Sharepoint

27. Folders or Metadata?

29. Some issues

33. Third-Party Vendors

34. Complexity / Cost

35. Building Applying Consuming Experts Machines Users

36. Handy Resources

37. TaxoCop: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TaxoCoP/ Earley & Associates: http://www.earley.com/ Mark Schneider: http://www.sharepointplan.com/ Montague Institute: http://www.montague.com/