Pro SharePoint 2010 Administration

SharePoint Metadata Types

Microsoft embraced metadata in SharePoint 2007—SharePoint 2003 incorporated “categories” for list data, but this was a far cry from deserving the title of metadata. SharePoint 2007 introduced the concept of the content type, which is a grouping of related attributes that describe a piece of content. Using the example in the preface of this chapter—a content type for a “proposal” document would typically contain all the attributes that content owners may assign to a proposal document.

SharePoint 2007 managed content types at the site collection level and enabled site collection administrators to create new content types in the Content Type Gallery, for use in the site collection hierarchy. Site owners of sub-sites in ...