SharePoint Taxonomy Tour

Sean Wallbridge

@itgroove | brainlitter.com

Who is this guy?

Sean Wallbridge 20 years as a technology consultant & trainer 10 years as a business owner (itgroove) SharePoint MVP (5 years) Learn More:

• Company Web Site: www.itgroove.net• My Blog: www.brainlitter.com• Twitter: @itgroove

What am I about?

SharePoint Tour Guide

SharePoint Jedi

Bob Ross of SharePoint

Jedi Master Norris

The Sith are screwed now…

Taxonomy Components Mind Map

What is Taxonomy

And why should I care?

What is Taxonomy

• What is Taxonomy in SharePoint?

Data about Data

So you can find and workflow against that data

A little more about Taxonomy

• How did we do it before SharePoint?• What about “Folksonomy?”

What comprises Taxonomy in SharePoint?

• Within the Site Collection

• Outside those Collections

Within the Site Collection

• Web (Site)• Site Content Types• Site Columns

• Libraries• Document Sets (a Content

Type)• Folders (Gasp!)• Columns

• Data Types• Managed Metadata• Document ID’s

Sites are Navigation Too

go.company.comCorporate

Teams

HR

Finance

Sales

Projects

Project X

Project Y

Knowledge Base

Within the Farm (Outside the Collection)

• Managed Metadata Service Application

• Content Type Hub

• Term Store

• Web Applications and Managed Paths

The Content Type Hub

Site Collection

Web WebSite Collection

Web Web

Site Collection

Web Web

Site Collection

Web Web

The HubMaster Copy or

“Publisher”

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Gosh. Taxonomy sounds hard.

Relax. Try/Learn. Search.

Q&A

• Can I import content/terms• Can you bring in content from excel?• Can you bring it in from any other source?

• Upgrade from previous versions• Possible or not?• Would you want to?

• Limitations and things to consider?

Demo Time

Questions?

Thank you.Email: swallbridge@itgroove.net

Blog: www.brainlitter.com

Web Site: www.itgroove.net

Twitter: @itgroove