SharePoint Taxonomies

Microsoft use the word “taxonomy” in relation to SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 to describe SharePoint’s site map structure.  Most Information Management practitioners think of this as the broader problem of applying terms from a formal organizational or industry taxonomy (e.g. Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary [IPSV] in UK Government or Medical Subject Headings [MeSH] in Life Sciences and Healthcare) to content by adding values to a taxonomy related site column.

Semaphore enables management of SharePoint taxonomies

SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 have no support for creating and maintaining taxonomies (in the sense of a complex hierarchical list), deploying a central taxonomy structure across site collections or automatically adding taxonomy values to documents, list items, blog entries, etc.  Semaphore for SharePoint adds this capability to SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 to assist information management and retrieval.