Associating Metadata with Documents

Authors can simplify the document management process by associating logical attributes to documents. As previously discussed at a high level in Chapter 3, this association is done by associating metadata to documents within a document profile, which will allow documents to be easily searched for and located within the document management library. As stated in Chapter 1, many organizations have a similar problem: that desired content is too difficult to locate within their traditional intranet. Within a SharePoint Portal Server site, this problem is addressed by having a Coordinator use a document profile to apply metadata to documents.

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