tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19239194496560176512012-06-01T09:04:30.922-07:00Welcome to WAND, Inc.'s corporate blog. Covering taxonomies, ways to use taxonomy, enterprise search, tagging, SharePoint 2010 Taxonomies and more.Marknoreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1923919449656017651.post-17851229989040141692012-06-01T09:04:00.004-07:002012-06-01T09:04:30.936-07:002012-06-01T09:04:30.936-07:00

Big Data. Big Unstructured Data. Big Unstructured Data Taxonomy? Big Data seems to be the latest hot industry buzzword making its way through the technology world.   What does it really mean and how do taxonomies come into play to help manage Big Data (or Big Unstructured Data - BUD). Content is being created at an unbelievable rate today.  A recent Independent Oracle Users Group study

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We'll be issuing a press release in the next few weeks, but I wanted to take some time on this blog to talk about a new partnership between WAND and Nintex.  The WAND DataFacet Automatic Tagging Engine has been integrated with Nintex Workflow 2010;  users can now access a DataFacet custom action and insert an automatic tagging step into the workflow.  Conditional actions within the workflow can

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Google has just released a new search experience for their end users called the Google Knowledge Graph. Knowledge Graph takes advantage of relationships between entities that it has deduced (either explicitly with a taxonomy or benefiting from its large volume of search history and click behavior) to present more relevant search results to users. So, a search for Leonardo Da Vinci will return a

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We are proud to have our technology as a key component to Information Builders' WebFocus Magnify consumer sentiment analysis capabilities: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/information-builders-adds-sophisticated-sentiment-analysis-capabilities-to-its-strategic-business-intelligence-platform-2012-04-17

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 WAND has always had a Building and Construction Taxonomy that covered equipment, supplies, and services. But, managing construction involves much more than just equipment and services. Today, we are proud to announce that we are releasing a comprehensive WAND Building and Construction Management Taxonomy that goes beyond equipment and supplies and covers construction documents, construction

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Do you have a SharePoint 2010 project and wondering how to get started with managed metadata? WAND, as announced in March 2011 on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog, provides a free general business taxonomy for users of SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint Online.  Download it here and instantly get started with taxonomy content in your term store to begin to tag documents today: http://

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WAND Higher Education Taxonomy I'm pleased to announce another new addition to our taxonomy library designed specifically for the higher education market.  The WAND Higher Education Taxonomy has 959 categories and 233 synonyms covering topics of importance to a college or university.  The taxonomy covers academics, university administration, admissions, athletics, campus transportation,

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WAND Records Retention Taxonomy WAND has many other taxonomies than have been mentioned on this blog to date so I'm going to start posting about some of those taxonomies so they can be easily found here.  The first one on the list is the WAND Records Retention Taxonomy.  WAND's Records Retention Taxonomy was created by organizing all the common document types that companies must keep as

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Solution pages for WAND Taxonomies and for the DataFacet Automatic Tagging Engine are now up on Microsoft Pinpoint: DataFacet Automatic Tagging Engine on Microsoft PinPoint:  http://bit.ly/Ap0erz WAND Taxonomies on Microsoft PinPoint: http://bit.ly/xUajQ6 Pre-built taxonomies and automatic tagging are powerful add-ons for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint online.  Read why you should

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Many companies are running project management documents in their ECM or document management system, including SharePoint 2010.  Just like any other documents, these need to be tagged with relevant metadata so that project managers can have effective search, stay organized, and stay productive.  WAND has created a taxonomy just for this purpose. Project Management Taxonomy The WAND Project

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Managed Metadata is the most important feature you can know about if you have a SharePoint 2010 document management project.  You should not do a SharePoint 2010 ECM project without taxonomy and managed metadata.    Here are six reasons why: 1) Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it: Enterprise content management projects often fail due to poor search. Taxonomy based

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We are proud to announce the release of our brand new Oil and Gas Taxonomy.  The WAND Oil and Gas Taxonomy contains 1513 terms with 270 synonyms and includes both upsteam and downstream topics for the oil and gas industry including exploration, drilling, petroleum recovery, refining, gas processing, geology, equipment and supplies, environmental, safety, and more.   WAND Oil and Gas

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WAND has been doing a lot of work in SharePoint 2010 since it launched providing taxonomies for the managed metadata service to help companies tag library items more effectively.  However, we noticed that managed metadata can also be used to help tag My Sites profiles so we created a skills taxonomy just for that purpose. WAND Skills Taxonomy The WAND Skills taxonomy has over 1400 different

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Happy new year!  I'm very excited about 2012 and think it is going to be a great year for taxonomies.   2011 saw a ton of growth in interest and awareness of taxonomies, much of this driven by adoption of SharePoint 2010 and the term store feature, but certainly other applications as well.  I'll post more about this separately, but for now, I want to focus on the first new taxonomy launch of the

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Our taxonomy team has just completed the most recent addition to the WAND Taxonomy Library with the release of the WAND Legal Taxonomy. The Legal Taxonomy includes 745 terms, with 136 synonyms, designed to help a company or a law firm organize legal documents and concepts including matters, area of law, legal document types, and more.  WAND Legal Taxonomy Adding relevant legal metadata to

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Thanks to Image and Data Manager (idm.net.au) in Australisa for the nice article about WAND Taxonomies for SharePoint 2010  and DataFacet Automatic tagging engine for SharePoint 2010 As mentioned in the article, and for our friends in Australia, DataFacet will be featured at the Share 2011 conference in Sydney on November 28-29th at the PowerMark stand. http://idm.net.au/article/008750-

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I am happy to announce that we've added another major taxonomy to our library. Today, we are officially releasing our new Mining Taxonomy, with 900+ terms and 200+ synonyms covering most major mining business processes including exploration, extraction, extractive metallurgy, geology, and more. We've spoken to a lot of mining companies who have downloaded the WAND General Business

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WAND's product and service taxonomies cover all the types of products that a company may make. We have coverage of products for every industry and any company. WAND Manufacturing Taxonomy Now, we have developed a manufacturing taxonomy to cover topics about how products are made. This taxonomy is ideal for any company with a document management project, perhaps in SharePoint 2010 or

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I came across this training video about how to use Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 from the Microsoft Developer Network site.  This is a 20 minute video and worth watching from anybody who is doing content management inside of SharePoint 2010. A few key highlights: - Ability to define and share content types enterprise wide from a single site collection. Local content types can still be

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WAND has just completed the first build of an information technology taxonomy, with over 1,700 categories to help an IT department organize its content.  WAND's new IT Administration Taxonomy (is that the right name for it? I'm not yet sure) includes commercial software packages, programming languages, IT certifications, IT administration processes, and more.  The taxonomy is ready for import

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The WAND Taxonomy are now featured in a new offering from SAS.  SAS's Industry Taxonomy Rules starter kits help power more efficient classification inside of SAS Enterprise Content Categorization.  We are very pleased to be working with SAS.

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Previously in this blog, I've discussed the basic managed metadata capabilities in SharePoint 2010, that is, the ability to import taxonomies into the SharePoint 2010 Term Store and then tag documents with metadata from these taxonomies in a managed metadata column by browsing through the taxonomy hierarchy or using the type-ahead search feature. Or, using DataFacet from WAND, these managed

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The Sharepoint 2010 term store has done a terrrific job of raising awareness of the value of taxonomy for organizing enterprise information.    Once people are aware of taxonomy, how can they use it?  I've discussed the basic applications on this blog already.  Taxonomy and the managed metadata feature makes a huge step forward for tagging documents in Sharepoint and for providing sophisticated

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I've had several postings about taxonomy for Sharepoint 2010 but I wanted to make sure I've provided a link to the list of foundation taxonomies available from WAND.   Taxonomies for Sharepoint 2010 These taxonomies are designed to get you started in implementing your own taxonomy.  Once you've selected a foundation taxonomy, it can be customized to include the specific terminology for your

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An interesting young company that we've run across in the SharePoint security space is CipherPoint Software. CipherPoint's products secure sensitive content in SharePoint sites, and by doing so, they solve compliance issues related to content regulated by various compliance regulations, including GLBA, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and others. There's a natural connection here to what we do at WAND with

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