Tagging and Folksonomy
With MOSS 2007, you can use metadata and official taxonomy to organise your documents. In Microsoft SharePoint Sever 2010, you still have all those capabilities, but you also get the ability to be less formal and have users define their own tags for SharePoint content. Users can quite simply type in new tags for documents and other content. There is also the facility for prompts and suggested tags, to help keep the terminology consistent. Administrators can track the tags that are being used and, if they so wish, promote particular tags from the folksonomy to the taxonomy.
So SharePoint 2010 offers the capabilities of being both structured and unstructured in its approach to content management.
If you are interested in a particular topic, you can subscribe to a tag and be alerted when new content is added. You can even use tags in order to find people who are experts on a subject using some of the new social networking capabilities.
If you buy MOSS 2007 with Software Assurance now, you’ll get the upgrade rights to 2010 when it’s released. There’s no better time to buy!
