This is a blog by Anders Skjønaa
who was a speaker at the European SharePoint
Conference.
I made a presentation with the JBoye SharePoint 2010 community
this week. The topic was Metadata and Content Types in SharePoint
2010. We talked about the vast set of functionality that depends on
these things and the potential value of giving metadata management
some focus.
The core of the talk went into some best practices for managing
content types across midsized and large organizations.
It is my experience that organizations are often not giving the
area of metadata and content types the focus it deserves. Therefore
quite a bit of information is still identified (using Content
Types) as “items” and these documents have a tendency to disappear
in the vast amount of data most companies put into SharePoint.
Content Types are the capability to “type-cast” every single
content artifact, to add a structure to the entire information
corpus.
When implementing SharePoint, we need to get this topic into the
IA work, early in the planning phase. The way we use content types
may have an impact on the way we need to design the SharePoint
infrastructure; using thing like Content Type Hubs, inheritance
etc.
IA, you need to make sure that this person also have sufficient
knowledge of how SharePoint works, and the capabilities it has.
There are not a lot of resources available the really master both
of these trades, so a fallback plan can be to build an IA team,
where both competences are equally available.
Download the presentation here:
Using Metada and Content Types in SharePoint
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