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How many taxonomies and terms can be in the SharePoint Term Store?"
5/21/2013
SharePoint Managed Metadata Question of the Week Each week we will be featuring an audience question from WAND's recent webinar, "Managed Metadata 101: Taxonomies and Tagging in SharePoint," and sharing the answer with our blog audience.
This week's question is: "How many taxonomies and terms can be in the SharePoint Term Store?"
Answer: There are some maximum supported limits in the term store
WAND Medical Equipment and Supplies Taxonomy
5/16/2013
With 1,066 terms, the WAND Medical Equipment and Supplies Taxonomy has deep coverage of equipment and supplies used in hospitals, doctor’s offices, or other medical environments.
WAND Medical Equipment and Supplies
The WAND Medical Equipment and Supplies Taxonomy can be combined with the WAND Medical Diagnosis and Specialties Taxonomy and the WAND Medical Services Taxonomy for greater coverage
How to import a taxonomy into the SharePoint term store
5/14/2013
SharePoint Managed Metadata Question of the Week Each week we will be featuring an audience question from WAND's recent webinar, "Managed Metadata 101: Taxonomies and Tagging in SharePoint," and sharing the answer with our blog audience.
This week's question is: "How do you import a taxonomy into the SharePoint term store?"
Answer: Taxonomies (or term sets as SharePoint calls them) can easily
WAND Medical Conditions and Specialties Taxonomy
5/9/2013
For the first time on our blog, I'm happy to share info about the WAND Medical Conditions and Specialties Taxonomy. The WAND Medical Conditions and Specialties Taxonomy covers medical conditions, such as cancer, anemia, disabilities as well as medical specialties such as oncology and cardiology.
Medical Conditions and Specialties Taxonomy
With highly relevant medical terminology organized
What are the differences between the taxonomy and term store features in SharePoint 2013 versus SharePoint 2010?"
5/7/2013
SharePoint Managed Metadata Question of the Week Each week we will be featuring an audience question from WAND's recent webinar, "Managed Metadata 101: Taxonomies and Tagging in SharePoint," and sharing the answer with our blog audience.
This week's question is: "What are the differences between the taxonomy and term store features in SharePoint 2013 versus SharePoint 2010?"
Answer: SharePoint
How do you add language translations to your taxonomy in the SharePoint Term Store?
5/2/2013
SharePoint Managed Metadata Question of the Week Each week we will be featuring an audience question from WAND's recent webinar, "Managed Metadata 101: Taxonomies and Tagging in SharePoint," and sharing the answer with our blog audience. This week's question is: "How do you add language translations to your taxonomy in the SharePoint Term Store?"
Answer: Adding languages in the term store
WAND Finance and Investment Taxonomy
4/30/2013
The WAND Finance and Investment Taxonomy is another taxonomy from WAND focused on the financial industry that has been available for a while now but had not yet been blogged about.
WAND Finance and Investment Taxonomy
The WAND Finance and Investment Taxonomy covers all the major topics and concepts of the
investment industry. 1526 categories and 1006 synonyms cover topics relating to asset
WAND Food and Beverage Taxonomy
4/25/2013
WAND Food and Beverage Taxonomy
The WAND Food and Beverage Taxonomy is another branch that we have extracted from the WAND Product and Service Taxonomy. Our Food and Beverage Taxonomy has been available for years and been used by a major food and beverage manufacturer to tag internal research documents for a team of food scientists. But, we haven't put it up on our blog, and wanted to share
In SharePoint, can terms from more than one taxonomy be assigned to the same document?
4/23/2013
SharePoint Managed Metadata Question of the Week Each week we will be featuring an audience question from WAND's recent webinar, "Managed Metadata 101: Taxonomies and Tagging in SharePoint," and sharing the answer with our blog audience. This week's question is, "In SharePoint, can terms from more than one taxonomy be assigned to the same document?" Answer: Terms from multiple term sets or
WAND announces nine leading information management vendors have joined as founding members of the new ‘WAND Within’ taxonomy partnership program
4/17/2013
WAND Within expands the distribution of WAND’s taxonomy library amidst growing customer demand for taxonomies to enhance search, content, and information management.
Denver, CO, USA --- WAND, Inc., the world’s leading provider of taxonomies in the information management industry, today announced the launch of its WAND WithinTM Taxonomy partnership initiative with an impressive roster of nine top
In the SharePoint Term Store, what is difference between the term groups above the line and below the line?"
4/16/2013
SharePoint Managed Metadata Question of the Week
Each week we will be featuring an audience question from WAND's recent webinar, "Managed Metadata 101: Taxonomies and Tagging in SharePoint," and sharing the answer with our blog audience.
This week's question is, "In the SharePoint Term Store, what is difference between the term groups above the line and below the line ?"
Answer: In the
Managed MetaData 101: Taxonomy and Tagging in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013
4/15/2013
WAND does a regular webinar for people who have downloaded our Free SharePoint Taxonomy to explain the mechanics of using taxonomies in SharePoint 2010. The most recent session was March 13, 2013.
If you are starting a SharePoint Taxonomy project, this is a great way to learn about the taxonomy features in SharePoint.
SharePoint Taxonomy: How to Start
3/21/2013
Are you wondering how to start with SharePoint Taxonomy?
Many people have heard about the value of managed metadata, term store, and tagging in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 but don't have a taxonomy and are wondering what a taxonomy looks like and how to get started.
Download a free SharePoint Taxonomy from WAND and begin to see how taxonomy, managed metadata, and the term store in
Common Taxonomy Questions: What is the difference between a Taxonomy and an Ontology?
3/15/2013
In the world of information management, two common terms that people use are "taxonomy" and "ontology" but people often wonder what the difference between the two terms are. In many of our webinars, this question comes up so I wanted to provide an answer on our blog.
Taxonomy is a
collection of terms that are connected by broader term, narrower term, related
term, and synonym
WAND Local Government Taxonomy Officially Launches
2/19/2013
WAND is proud to announce the launch of another new title in its foundation taxonomy library - the WAND Local Government Taxonomy.
WAND Local Government Taxonomy
Designed specifically for city, county, and other local municipal government organizations, the Local Government Taxonomy includes 1,224 categories with 110 synonyms for important local government functions, documents, forms, fees,
"WAND Within" Taxonomy Partnership Program
2/11/2013
The WAND blog has been quiet in 2013 so far but we have been hard at work and we are going to begin to make a little bit more noise First, today I'm making a soft announcement that we have launched a brand new partnership program called "WAND Within" designed to pair WAND's industry and business taxonomies with leading technologies around the world which are made more powerful and effective with
DataFacet Featured In SharePoint Expert’s Post
11/2/2012
Microsoft SharePoint
consultants, SWC Technology Partners’ latest blog post features WAND’s
DataFacet. SWC’s Microsoft SharePoint expert Jeff Lanham discusses how
the DataFacet solution provides easy and robust ‘content find-ability’ without
investing a lot of effort to get it working. The article continues by
pointing out some of the benefits of using DataFacet with SharePoint. Read the
WAND Exhibiting Taxonomies and Tagging at the SharePoint Conference 2012 in Las Vegas
9/24/2012
Come visit us at Booth 1115 at the SharePoint Conference 2012 in Las Vegas from November 12-15.
We'll be exhibiting our complete library of taxonomies for SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Online, and SharePoint 2013. We'll also be unveiling some brand new taxonoimes specifically for SharePoint 2013 to take advantage of some of the new features in the SharePoint 2013 term store.
At the booth, we'll
WAND Spend Classification
8/16/2012
With decades of experience in creating taxonomies and classifying information, WAND has recently turned our attention to spend analysis with some exciting results.
We've partnered with a few of the leading spend management and strategic sourcing consulting firms to classify billions of spend into specific WAND Product and Service Taxonomy categories. The output is then delivered back to our
WAND Sales and Marketing Taxonomy now available
8/13/2012
I'm proud to announce the availability of the WAND Sales and Marketing Taxonomy, the newest addition to the WAND Taxonomy Library.
The WAND Sales and Marketing Taxonomy is a complete foundation taxonomy for a sales and marketing group, greatly expanding upon the terms available in the sales and marketing branch of the WAND General Business Taxonomy.
This new taxonomy has 443 categories
WAND DataFacet makes automatic tagging available for SharePoint 2013
8/7/2012
Although people are still making the move to SharePoint 2010, the release of SharePoint 2013 is right around the corner. I'll be blogging over the next few months about some of the new features to keep an eye on as it relates to taxonomy, managed metadata, and the term store.
For now, i wanted to take a moment to accounce that the WAND DataFacet Automatic Tagging Engine is compatible with
WAND DataFacet adds Automatic Tagging Capabilities to Nintex Workflow for SharePoint 2010
7/19/2012
WAND DataFacet adds Automatic Tagging Capabilities to Nintex Workflow for SharePoint 2010
Integration provides a
custom action to add taxonomy based metadata during a workflow process
Denver, CO, USA --- WAND, Inc., a leading provider of
taxonomies and the DataFacet Automatic Tagging Solution for SharePoint, today
announced its integration with Nintex Workflow.
The DataFacet Automatic
Taxonomy for SharePoint 2010
7/17/2012
I like to remind people from time to time that WAND has made its General Business Taxonomy available as a free download for users of SharePoint 2010. The WAND General Business Taxonomy is designed as a starter set of terminology that should be relevant to nearly any business organization.
WAND General Business Taxonomy
WAND partnered with Microsoft's SharePoint team to make this taxonomy
Facts about document organization and search - the Paperless Project
7/13/2012
I recently came across an initiative called The Paperless Project. The name is self-explanatory, but the initiative is driven by companies who want to help organizations improve content and document management and move enterprise information to electronic formats.
The Paperless Project has a page on its website with some facts about paper use in the U.S. and worldwide. (http://
WAND Banking Taxonomy Now Available
6/13/2012
Commercial Banking Taxonomy
I am pleased to announce the release of the WAND Retail Banking Taxonomy. The WAND Retail Banking Taxonomy has 815 terms with 339 synonyms covering banking processes, retail banking, regulations, products, fees, risk management, banking documents, and much more.
The financial services industry has been more proactive than most in adopting taxonomies due to
See more at the WAND Inc. Blog
