SharePoint Content Structure – Let a thousand content types bloom?

“How many content types should you have?”
This is the question that came up in a conference call last week on SharePoint architecture. This organization had implemented their corporate portal on SharePoint 2007 and was interested in going forward with more portal sites but had some concerns about the approach to information architecture they had undertaken.
I answered [...]

Integrating Taxonomy with CMS – Book Chapter in Publication

The final draft has been submitted… Mark your calendars…
The Information Management Best Practices 2009 book is going to publication this week, in hopes of being ready for launch at the J.Boye Conference in Aarhus, Denmark, Nov 2-4. I’ll be there, giving a talk on SharePoint IA, but also to lend a hand with the book [...]

Taxonomy in Extreme Places

How often do you get to be immersed in a completely alien work environment?
As a taxonomist, I get to learn about so many different domains through my work, from mouse genetics to greeting card manufacturing. Each company has its interesting quirks and workplaces…Like the toy manufacturer, whose workers had their cubicles adorned with all sorts of [...]

Collaboration, Groove and SharePoint – History Repeating Itself?

I just read that Groove is being renamed as SharePoint Workspace 2010.  For those of you who are not familiar with Groove or its history, I’ll take you back to the early 80’s. 
Ray Ozzie is the visionary behind Groove and currently the Chief Software Architect at Microsoft (a role he took over from Bill Gates).  At University of [...]

OASIS Approves UIMA – the first standard for accessing Unstructured Information

Early last month, OASIS announced the approval of the Unstructured Information Management Architecture Version 1.0. This standard creates an open method for accessing unstructured information – that is, any information that is created by and for people, and is not inherently machine-readable (e.g., not data).