Whether you deploy MOSS for enterprise search depends on your technology strategy and budget, how much you’ve invested in metadata and taxonomies, and how you plan to search multiple content repositories. If you use SharePoint for collaboration and content management but choose another product for enterprise search, you’ll need to consider two kinds of complimentary products: taxonomy management programs that integrate with MOSS search, and search engines that can search SharePoint content.
Analysis looks at metadata discovery capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) search and use of thesaurus data and relationships to expand a search. These capabilities, however, are limited.
So while it’s possible to tweak MOSS search results using a variety of techniques along with some data from an existing thesaurus, it’s a labor-intensive endeavor. For this reason, some organizations with large, complex taxonomies opt to purchase third-party thesaurus management software that integrates with SharePoint—an approach that Microsoft endorses. Examples of MOSS-compatible taxonomy management tools include Factiva Synaptica,Data Harmony Machine-Aided Indexer, Schemalogic
SchemaServer, and Interse I-box.
The full report, Sharepoint Search - an Enterprise Contender?, is available for free with registration. [PDF - 6 pages]
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Maybe you don't even have to think about search ;-)
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 or search.
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:
http://www.sharepartxxl.com/products/taxonomy/default.aspx
At Smartlogic we've been working with a number of clients plugging taxonomies into Sharepoint. Our Semaphore software provides Taxonomy Management and Automatic Classification.
The key issues we've come across are:
- deploying to "real world" Sharepoint deployments: You need to be able to automate the deployment of the taxonomy site columns to libraries and into content types, and the integration into the SharepPoint event handlers is not trivial!
- managing change: allowing users to change tags or provinding the capability to re-classify an entire library in a batch mode. Ensuring that the client takes ownership of the taxonomy and continues to update and health check it.
- showing the value: providing taxonomy browser and search web parts that expose the metadata. This helps get round the issue usually faced with forcing a user to store the item in one place - when it can be "about" several things.
More informatation can be found at http://www.smartlogic.com
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