Notes and Tagging

Tagging is the flavor of the Internet these days. With the explosion of social networking, and sites like Facebook, everyone is in the mode to tag and “like” content. SharePoint 2010 is on the tagging bandwagon and offers users the ability to perform extensive tagging using the Managed Metadata Service application.

When discussing SharePoint 2010 tagging, notes, and social networking capabilities, the topic of metadata will invariably come into play. Metadata is “data about data.” For example, a database schema defines the structure and properties of SQL tables—this is metadata for the actual row data in the table. In the world of SharePoint 2010, tags are metadata, because they give the reader of certain content some level ...

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