The implications of tagging in SharePoint 2010
Posted in SharePoint on October 21st, 2009 by Scott Jamison – Be the first to commentI’m currently in Vegas at the SharePoint Conference and have had a number of conversations with attendees about some of the new tagging features coming in SharePoint 2010. In particular, SharePoint 2010 adds two key capabilities which impact how tagging will happen:
- The Managed Metadata Service (this will track folksonomy tags and enable companies to manage a central, hierarchical taxonomy)
- Social Tagging and Feedback (this will enable the community to tag a document, regardless of whether they have permissions to change the metadata columns on the document)
These features, while related, are very different. I’ll be following this up with another post on the detailed differences between managed keywords, managed terms, and social tags. If these features aren’t well understood (and their usage not governed properly), you won’t get the results you expect.
More to follow…stay tuned.
