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How would you use this to create and maintain a "virtual" taxonomy to aggregate documents based on their classification?

MOSS implements a hierarchical storage model with sites, sub-sites, document libraries, sub-libraries, folders and so on. This is a very useful way to organise information and in many ways reflects the traditional ways that information has always been stored. However, sometimes it would be useful to view the documents within MOSS by browsing a folder structure that is based on a completely different hierarchy and this would require the documents to be duplicated within MOSS.

However, conceptClassifier for SharePoint assigns metadata to documents based on one or more taxonomy structures that can be customised to suit each individual organisation’s needs. This metadata can be used to drive queries via a taxonomy structure effectively implementing a virtual folder structure that cuts across the physical layout in MOSS and thus provides a completely different viewpoint from which to access the same content. Of course this is achieved without any duplication of content because the virtual taxonomies are implemented using standard SharePoint property values created by conceptClassifier for SharePoint. The virtual folders are not limited in size and the total number of documents aggregated at each level is unlimited.

A good example can be seen here: http://moss.conceptsearching.com/conceptSearching/Sample%20Pages/TaxonomyBrowse.aspx

Open the “conceptClassification” combo and notice how a treeview drops down to provide a taxonomy browsing mechanism. When you select an entry and click search the results are delivered by the native Microsoft SharePoint search engine using the property metadata created automatically by conceptClassifier for SharePoint.

If you are interested in a more "browse" then "search" focused solution then check out the Taxonomy Extension for SharePoint offered at:

http://www.sharepartxxl.com/products/taxonomy/default.aspx

Please notice the possibility to display related content directly in detail view, additional web parts for category tree view, A-Z index, tag cloud...

With that extension the SharePoint portal really can become a place to share knowledge as well as content.

Thx, Frank