Taxonomy Metadata for Microsoft SharePoint provide a robust and expanding library of taxonomies covering a wide variety of domains to help jumpstart classification projects.

The taxonomy is a critical component for managing enterprise information. It is essential in delivering accurate results spread across potentially massive volumes of items and documents in a consistent manner. A taxonomy that is well structured helps make information retrieval fast, accurate, and easy resulting in quantifiable business benefits.

Pre-defined taxonomies, ready to import in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and into the free Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 can be licensed and integrated out-of-the-box into your existing intranet, content management application, knowledge management portal, or any other application that would benefit from the power of a robust taxonomy-based classification or search. The taxonomies are flexible and can be easily customised and modified to address unique organizational requirements. No additional software is required.

• accelerates the taxonomy development process
• incorporates industry specific metadata
• provides the base for accurate and consistent subject metadata
• provides a logical and standardized way to tag and classify information, allows the identification of content relationships in a well defined structure