Taxonomy Extension for Microsoft Sharepoint

SharePartXXL International GmbH provides "applications and solutions that add additional features to WSS and MOSS". Among these is the SharePartXXL Taxonomy Extension for Microsoft SharePoint.

From the e-mailing:

"The SharePartXXL Taxonomy Extension for Microsoft SharePoint enables documents and list items in a SharePoint-based portal to be organized cross-site as part of a connected content network and knowledge model. SharePoint items are associated by category using one or more custom taxonomies. So users can organize documents and other portal contents in the way that they think and work. With that extension
the SharePoint portal really can become a place to share knowledge as well as content:"

Details about the product are desribed on the Taxonomy Extension product page.

Forrester Research on Enterprise Tagging

Forrester Research has made a presentation from a teleconference on folksonomies in the enterprise available.

Folksonomy in the Enterprise: How to effectively leverage social tagging
(Feb 15, 2008)

Download from http://www.k-sync.com/document.cfm?iDocumentID=4029358

Agenda covers:

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1. Content is increasingly unregulated and unstructured. This is the problem that tagging addresses.
2. Content enrichment options - metadata, classification, automated classification, and social tagging.
3. How tagging aligns with taxonomy - shows taxonomy vs tagging - mentions some software systems, good diagram for "full enrichment cycle".
4. User case study - IBM Information Discovery Initiative - enterprise social tagging.
5. Recommendations - try tagging.

Taxonomy Directed Folksonomies

TAXONOMY DIRECTED FOLKSONOMIES -- Integrating user tagging and controlled vocabularies for Australian education networks -- by Sarah Hayman and Nick Lothian at education.au, 2007

This paper was presented at theWorld Library and Information Congress at the 2007 IFLA Conference.

It opens with the key question -- "What is the role of controlled vocabulary in a Web 2.0 world? Can we have the best of both worlds: balancing folksonomies and controlled vocabularies to help communities of users find and share information and resources most relevant to them?"

Paper includes a review of the growth and characteristics of user tagging and folksonomies on the Web. Throughout there is a discussion of the value that user tagging provides - along with some of the difficulties.

The aim is to examine if the folksonomy and formal taxonomy can be used together. The answer is Yes - and the authors have a proof of concept model that they are using at education.au.

"Is it possible to combine the two approaches and gain benefits from both? Some attempts have been made already and a few are mentioned here in a consideration of some future developments for social tagging. We then discuss our own model: the taxonomy-directed folksonomy for the myedna proof of concept."