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."

Meta-tagging in the office

The EnterpriseSearch blog by Mike Kehoe has entries on taxonomies as well as many enterprise search vendors such as Endeca, Microsoft, IBM.

He seems to favour user tagging but when combined with some forethought on types of metatags. In this article from 2004 he recommends a full study to determine what tags would be best used. 5 Steps to Better Tagging

Enterprise Search Sourcebook

Enterprise Search Sourcebook 2008

The Enterprise Search Sourcebook for 2008 is available in e-book format is available through Nxtbook.com.

This is a free resource with a great range of articles about search tools and practices for the enterprise. A few sections of note:

+ Why enterprise search will never be Google-y
+ Enterprise search: trends for 2008
+ E-Discovery essentials: the rules you need to know
+ Sharepoint Search: an enterprise contender?
+ A natural search solution

There are 102 pages in total. Can save the entire book for offline viewing or print sections.

Taxonomy Boot Camp

Full conference details for Taxonomy Boot Camp 2008 are available at the website.

Organizing Information for Search & Discovery
September 25-26, 2008
San Jose McEnery Convention Center - San Jose, CA

Keynote speakers are:

• Peter Morville, President, Semantic Studios, and author, Ambient Findability
• Leslie Owens, Analyst, Forrester

Taxonomy Folksonomy Cookbook

Free Taxonomy & Folksonomy Book Posted by Oliver Marks in ZDnet (July 23)

Points us to a great new book by Daniela Barbosa of Synaptica at Dow Jones Client Solutions, ‘The Taxonomy Folksonomy Cookbook: Finding the right recipe for organizing enterprise metadata‘. She samples "the different flavors of how enterprises can incorporate social tagging into their taxonomies".

The objective is to get the best of the discipline of the prepared taxonomy and the involvement of social taggers in building knowledge and enhancing findability.

"Fortunately, the taxonomy versus folksonomy issue is not an “either/or” debate, but an opportunity for mutual progress. By combining the virtues of each approach into a working hybrid model, the enterprise can achieve its goal: a user-friendly system that encourages collaboration and makes information easier to find."

Has many "recipes".

The e-book is online and free with registration.

State of Enterprise Search

AIIM Study Finds Enterprise Search Still Lacking By Ron Miller, EContent (Jun 27, 2008 )

"A study conducted by AIIM in May has found that enterprise search is still lags behind consumer-oriented search when it comes to helping people find the information they need inside the firewall, but enterprise employees may have unreasonable expectations based on their experiences on the consumer web."

Entity Extraction

13 Powerful Entity Extraction Techniques from the Enterprise Search blog (June 23)

Lists 13 techniques that entity extraction systems use.

The blog is managed by Miles Kehoe of New Idea Engineering - a resource to watch.

KMWorld's Enterprise Search 2008

KMWorld Enterprise Search, Vol IV [May 2008] features articles on best practices in enterprise search.

Contents:

+ The Enterprise Search "Essay Test" by Andy Moore
+ What Makes Search Great? by Susan Feldman
+ Text Analytics for Enterprise Search - The Essential Components for High Performance Systems by Dr. Johannes Scholtes
+ Access With Security Safely - Improve Knowledge Worker Efficiency with Secure Search
by John McCormick
+ Making Connections - Search and Content: Keys to a Better Customer Experience by Jason Hekl
+ The Path to Universal Search by Vijay Koduri
+ New Equation for Findability by Michael Schmitt
+ Jump-Starting Collaboration with Social Search by Jerome Pesenti
+ The New Frontier—Capturing User Context by Harald Jellum , Trond Lein , Mikael Svenson
+ Search’s Critical Role in Litigation Preparedness by Craig Carpenter
+ Search is an Iterative Process by Ian Davies
+ Your Customers Can Search, But Do They Find? by Nitin Badjatia
+ Whither Enterprise Search?Enterprise search is undergoing rapid transformation. What was once seen... by Martin Muldoon
+ Enterprise 2.0 and Search - Serious Results from Light Tooling by Hadley Reynolds , Zia Zaman
+ Mastering a Key Challenge of Enterprise Search - Put Structured Data at Employees’ Fingertips by Matthias Weber
+ The Forgotten Search Solution - When you buy a new home, one of the first things you set out to do is decorate it... by Dr. Shaun Ryan
+ Five Ways to Waste a Million Dollars - After years of false starts and uncertain strategies for knowledge management... by Rob Guilbert
+ The Enterprise Search "Essay Test"—Extended Remix