Christian Buckley discusses the importance of metadata strategy for SharePoint implementations. He explains that without a clear taxonomy and metadata plan, content becomes difficult to find, share, and govern. Buckley recommends mapping high-level site collections and content types, understanding current and future metadata needs, and establishing a governance model to guide the process. With a strong metadata strategy in place, organizations can better leverage SharePoint services and improve collaboration.

2. Looking Under the Hood:How Your Metadata Strategy Impacts Everything You DoChristian Buckleycbuck@axceler.com@buckleyPLANETSharePoint Saturday Los AngelesApril 2nd, 2011

3. My BackgroundChristian Buckley, Director of Product Evangelism at AxcelerMost recently at Microsoft

4. Microsoft Managed Services (now BPOS-Dedicated)

5. Advertising Operations, ad platform API program

6. Prior to Microsoft, was a senior consultant, working in the software, supply chain, and grid technology spaces focusing on collaboration

7. Co-founded and sold a collaboration software company to Rational Software. Also co-authored 3 books on software configuration management and defect tracking for Rational and IBM

8. At another startup (E2open), helped design, build, and deploy a SharePoint-like collaboration platform (Collaboration Manager), managing deployment teams to onboard numerous high-tech manufacturing companies, including Hitachi, Matsushita, Seagate, Nortel, Sony, and Cisco

9. I live in a small town just east of Seattle, have a daughter in college and 3 boys at home, and I just celebrated my 20th wedding anniversaryAxceler OverviewImproving Collaboration for 16+ YearsMission: To enable enterprises to simplify, optimize, and secure their collaborative platformsDelivered award-winning administration and migration software since 1994Over 2,000 global customersDramatically improve the management of SharePointInnovative products that improve security, scalability, reliability, “deployability”Making IT more effective and efficient and lower the total cost of ownershipFocus on solving specific SharePoint problems (Administration & Migration)Coach enterprises on SharePoint best practicesGive administrators the most innovative tools availableAnticipate customers’ needsDeliver best of breed offeringsStay in lock step with SharePoint development and market trends

10. The #1 reason why your 2010 deployment will fail

11. Some questions for you…What are you trying to accomplish with SharePoint?

12. What was missing from your previous attempts?

13. What is your metadata Strategy for 2010?

14. What is metadata, anyway?

15. Where’s the metadata?

17. Name

18. Account Number

19. Credit Card

20. Social Security #

21. Billing Address

22. Book title

23. Author

24. ISBN

25. Publisher

26. Device ID

27. Email

28. Software version

29. Metadata enables you to flag, tag, and avoid

30. Name

31. Account Number

32. Mileage to date

33. Home town

34. Travel dates

35. City visiting

36. Flight number

37. GPS position

38. Friend’s Name

39. City visiting

40. GPS position

41. Distance to friend

42. Avoidance Flag = Yes

43. Status

44. Approval

45. Check in / check out

46. Version

47. User name

48. Department

49. Title

50. Role