Taxonomy and the Managed Metadata service in SharePoint 2010 – great links

The managed metadata service in SharePoint 2010 provides a central store for keywords and a hierarchically organized metadata - think of lookup columns but then a lot better with hierarchy support and central management across site collections, web applications or even farms.  If you’re new to the concept of the managed metadata service, managed keywords and the managed metadata field I strongly suggest that you take a look at the following links:

• Stephen Cawood has some postings about how the new SharePoint 2010 managed metadata features works:
  • Introduction to SharePoint Managed Metadata – excellent introduction to why the Enterprise Metadata Management feature in SharePoint 2010 is so important and what you get out-of-the box.
  • Also check out SharePoint 2010 Taxonomy Hierarchy and using SharePoint Term stores
  • SharePoint managed metadata developer experience
• Some great stuff on Technet on Managed metadata planning in SharePoint 2010:
  • Plan managed metadata (SharePoint Server 2010)
  • Managed metadata overview (SharePoint Server 2010)
  • Managed metadata service application overview (SharePoint Server 2010)
  • Managed metadata roles (SharePoint Server 2010)
  • Plan terms and term sets (SharePoint Server 2010)
  • Plan to import managed metadata (SharePoint Server 2010)Plan to share terminology and content types (SharePoint Server 2010)
• Excellent series of blog posts by Chris O’Brien:
  • Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 – a key ECM enhancement
  • Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 – some notes on the “why”

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