Taxonomy Term Specificity

One of the challenges in creating or editing taxonomies is determining how specific the terms should be. This is a key issue in making a ta...

Avoiding Mistakes in Taxonomy Hierarchical Relationships

Perhaps the most important issue in designing a hierarchical taxonomy is creating hierarchical relationships between terms correctly. This m...

Taxonomies vs. Thesauri: Practical Implementations

The differences between taxonomies and thesauri and when to implement which has been a subject of previous presentations of mine and a prev...

Polyhierarchy in the SharePoint Term Store

Last year I had the opportunity to create some taxonomy in the SharePoint Term Store (also called Managed Metadata), and while I am pleased...