This document contains the slides from a presentation by Ruven Gotz on practical information architecture and visual tools for SharePoint. The presentation covers topics such as what an information architect and business analyst do, mind mapping, taxonomy, content types, workflow mapping, and wireframing tools like Balsamiq. The goal is to provide visual ways of achieving shared understanding which is key for dealing with complex problems in SharePoint projects.
Metadata taxonomy and content types oh my - SPTechCon - April 2014Ruven Gotz
A 'meta' presentation about metadata - tools you can use to explain metadata to your stakeholders. Presented at SPTechCon, April 24, 2014 [DOWNLOAD THE FULL DECK TO GET SPEAKER'S NOTES]
The pain of metadata - SharePointalooza - 2015Ruven Gotz
The document is a presentation on metadata that provides definitions and examples to help explain the concept. It defines metadata as "data about data" and uses animal sounds as an analogy to illustrate how metadata distinguishes different types of data. It also discusses taxonomy and how it relates to organizing metadata using classification systems. The presentation emphasizes that metadata is important for functions like search, workflows, and records management. It concludes that metadata is most successful when its purpose and use is clear, responsibility is shared, and the approach is simple focusing on key elements.
SPS Chicago - Practical Information ArchitectureRuven Gotz
This document discusses using visual tools to assist with SharePoint information architecture and taxonomy design. It introduces mind mapping as a tool to help discover and organize content, explore metadata, and prioritize taxonomy terms. Process mapping and wireframing are also presented as useful for modeling workflows and page designs. The document emphasizes that these visual tools combined with facilitated workshops can help stakeholders develop a shared understanding of an information architecture.
Database Configuration for Maximum SharePoint 2010 PerformanceEdwin M Sarmiento
Database configuration has a direct impact on how SharePoint 2010 performs. This presentation looks at the SQL Server database and what configuration changes can be made to maximize performance for your SharePoint 2010 farms
Configuring SharePoint for Business IntelligenceJohn White
This document provides an overview of configuring SharePoint for business intelligence. It discusses setting up and installing various BI components in SharePoint like Excel Services, PerformancePoint, Reporting Services, and PowerPivot. It also covers scaling a SharePoint farm for BI workloads by separating roles across multiple servers. Requirements for the different BI tools are outlined. The document demonstrates impersonation options and integration points between SharePoint and SQL Server for BI.
Build BestBuy.com in 60 minutes [SharePoint Saturday Toronto]Kanwal Khipple
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The document discusses PowerPivot for SharePoint. It provides details on how PowerPivot works, including how the PowerPivot workbook is rendered. It describes components like PowerPivot Services and Analysis Services. It also covers installing and configuring PowerPivot for SharePoint farms.
Metadata taxonomy and content types oh my - SPTechCon - April 2014Ruven Gotz
A 'meta' presentation about metadata - tools you can use to explain metadata to your stakeholders. Presented at SPTechCon, April 24, 2014 [DOWNLOAD THE FULL DECK TO GET SPEAKER'S NOTES]
The pain of metadata - SharePointalooza - 2015Ruven Gotz
The document is a presentation on metadata that provides definitions and examples to help explain the concept. It defines metadata as "data about data" and uses animal sounds as an analogy to illustrate how metadata distinguishes different types of data. It also discusses taxonomy and how it relates to organizing metadata using classification systems. The presentation emphasizes that metadata is important for functions like search, workflows, and records management. It concludes that metadata is most successful when its purpose and use is clear, responsibility is shared, and the approach is simple focusing on key elements.
SPS Chicago - Practical Information ArchitectureRuven Gotz
This document discusses using visual tools to assist with SharePoint information architecture and taxonomy design. It introduces mind mapping as a tool to help discover and organize content, explore metadata, and prioritize taxonomy terms. Process mapping and wireframing are also presented as useful for modeling workflows and page designs. The document emphasizes that these visual tools combined with facilitated workshops can help stakeholders develop a shared understanding of an information architecture.
Database Configuration for Maximum SharePoint 2010 PerformanceEdwin M Sarmiento
Database configuration has a direct impact on how SharePoint 2010 performs. This presentation looks at the SQL Server database and what configuration changes can be made to maximize performance for your SharePoint 2010 farms
Configuring SharePoint for Business IntelligenceJohn White
This document provides an overview of configuring SharePoint for business intelligence. It discusses setting up and installing various BI components in SharePoint like Excel Services, PerformancePoint, Reporting Services, and PowerPivot. It also covers scaling a SharePoint farm for BI workloads by separating roles across multiple servers. Requirements for the different BI tools are outlined. The document demonstrates impersonation options and integration points between SharePoint and SQL Server for BI.
Build BestBuy.com in 60 minutes [SharePoint Saturday Toronto]Kanwal Khipple
Have you always wanted to learn how to build your own catalog site? With SharePoint 2013, its’ fairly easier than previous versions. In this session, you’ll learn about term sets, meta data driven navigation and how you can leverage SharePoint effectively to build a replica of bestbuy.com
The document discusses PowerPivot for SharePoint. It provides details on how PowerPivot works, including how the PowerPivot workbook is rendered. It describes components like PowerPivot Services and Analysis Services. It also covers installing and configuring PowerPivot for SharePoint farms.
SPTechCon - Taxonomy, Content Types and Metadata - Boston - August 12 2013Ruven Gotz
The document discusses metadata, taxonomies, and content types. Metadata is defined as data that provides information about other data. Taxonomies help organize information into hierarchical classifications, as demonstrated by the biological taxonomy example. Content types are templates that standardize documents and make metadata required, in order to improve file organization and searchability. The presentation argues that metadata, taxonomies, and content types are important for findability but challenging to implement effectively. It provides recommendations around focus, stakeholder involvement, and keeping implementations simple.
SharePoint Fest - New York - 2014 - Practical SharePoint Information Architec...Ruven Gotz
This document provides an overview of practical information architecture for SharePoint. It discusses the roles of an information architect and business analyst when working with SharePoint. It emphasizes the importance of soft skills like getting stakeholders on the same page through shared understanding. Various visual tools are presented that can help with shared understanding, such as mind mapping for navigation, taxonomy, and prioritization. Other tools discussed include dialogue mapping, wireframing with Balsamiq, and process mapping. The document stresses that social complexity makes problems "wicked" and that getting to shared understanding is crucial when using visual tools with shared displays.
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This document discusses using visual tools to help achieve shared understanding when dealing with complex information architecture and taxonomy problems in SharePoint. It introduces several visual tools like mind mapping, dialogue mapping, wireframing and process mapping that can assist with tasks like discovery, taxonomy development, and workflow design. The document emphasizes that these problems are "wicked" due to social complexity, and that visual tools on shared displays can help stakeholders get on the same page.
Metadata taxonomy and content types oh my collab con - mar 2015Ruven Gotz
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This document is a presentation about taxonomies, content types, and metadata. It begins with introductions and thanks, then discusses what metadata is through various analogies like sounds animals make. It explains taxonomy as a hierarchical classification system, using Carl Linnaeus' animal kingdom as an example. The presentation then discusses how to implement taxonomies and content types in SharePoint to better organize documents. It stresses the importance of focus, sharing responsibility, and keeping implementations simple. The goal is to help audiences better understand and explain these concepts to stakeholders.
In this talk I review some of the early visions of the Semantic Web, some of the different views, and I follow through on a thread of how Semantic Web technology has been adopted in search engines (and other companies). I end with a challenge to the research community to keep pursuing this research, rather than letting industry take over the "low end" and keep new work from flourishing.
Painless OpenStack Deployments Powered by Puppetaedocw
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Visible is a company that provides social media monitoring, analytics, and engagement services to help customers understand discussions and measure campaign results. They have large data sets from sources like Twitter, Facebook, and blogs. They use techniques like data enrichment, aggregation, and reporting to make the data more useful for customers in areas like marketing, communications, and research. The document discusses some of the technical and business challenges in building models from large and noisy social media data sets at scale, as well as two case studies - one on language detection modeling and another analyzing Delta Airlines' response to reports of needles found in sandwiches on flights.
A 1015 update to the 2012 "Data Big and Broad" talk - http://www.slideshare.net/jahendler/data-big-and-broad-oxford-2012 - extends coverage, brings more in context of recent "big data" work.
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An updated "what is happening on the Semantic Web" presentation for 2010 - includes business use, government use, and some speculation on the current areas of excitement and development. A very accessible talk, not aimed solely at a technical audience.
The document discusses The Washington Post's adoption of AWS and digital transformation efforts. It provides details on:
1) How The Post migrated systems and tools to AWS to improve scalability, performance, and innovation.
2) New tools and platforms The Post developed on AWS, like Arc Publishing, which are now used by other media companies.
3) How The Post uses AWS services like machine learning to improve content recommendations and moderation.
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FIWARE Global Summit - FIROS: Helping Robots to be Context AwareFIWARE
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The document discusses metadata, taxonomies, and content types. Metadata is defined as data that provides information about other data. Taxonomies help organize information into hierarchical classifications, as demonstrated by the biological taxonomy example. Content types are templates that standardize documents and make metadata required, in order to improve file organization and searchability. The presentation argues that metadata, taxonomies, and content types are important for findability but challenging to implement effectively. It provides recommendations around focus, stakeholder involvement, and keeping implementations simple.
SharePoint Fest - New York - 2014 - Practical SharePoint Information Architec...Ruven Gotz
This document provides an overview of practical information architecture for SharePoint. It discusses the roles of an information architect and business analyst when working with SharePoint. It emphasizes the importance of soft skills like getting stakeholders on the same page through shared understanding. Various visual tools are presented that can help with shared understanding, such as mind mapping for navigation, taxonomy, and prioritization. Other tools discussed include dialogue mapping, wireframing with Balsamiq, and process mapping. The document stresses that social complexity makes problems "wicked" and that getting to shared understanding is crucial when using visual tools with shared displays.
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This document discusses using visual tools to help achieve shared understanding when dealing with complex information architecture and taxonomy problems in SharePoint. It introduces several visual tools like mind mapping, dialogue mapping, wireframing and process mapping that can assist with tasks like discovery, taxonomy development, and workflow design. The document emphasizes that these problems are "wicked" due to social complexity, and that visual tools on shared displays can help stakeholders get on the same page.
Metadata taxonomy and content types oh my collab con - mar 2015Ruven Gotz
This document is a presentation about taxonomies, content types, and metadata. It begins with introductions and then defines metadata as "data about data" that can help classify, organize, and find information. It discusses how taxonomies can be used to categorize information in a hierarchy, using Carl Linnaeus' biological taxonomy as an example. Content types are then introduced as templates that enforce common attributes for groups of documents. The presentation notes that while tools like SharePoint aim to help with organization, metadata is still difficult to implement effectively in practice due to challenges around focus, responsibility, and complexity. It emphasizes the importance of clear goals and sharing responsibility for metadata.
Metadata taxonomy and content types oh my sps philly - mar 2015Ruven Gotz
This document is a presentation about taxonomies, content types, and metadata. It begins with introductions and thanks, then discusses what metadata is through various analogies like sounds animals make. It explains taxonomy as a hierarchical classification system, using Carl Linnaeus' animal kingdom as an example. The presentation then discusses how to implement taxonomies and content types in SharePoint to better organize documents. It stresses the importance of focus, sharing responsibility, and keeping implementations simple. The goal is to help audiences better understand and explain these concepts to stakeholders.
In this talk I review some of the early visions of the Semantic Web, some of the different views, and I follow through on a thread of how Semantic Web technology has been adopted in search engines (and other companies). I end with a challenge to the research community to keep pursuing this research, rather than letting industry take over the "low end" and keep new work from flourishing.
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This document summarizes a presentation about using Puppet for painless OpenStack deployments. It discusses what OpenStack is, the benefits of using configuration management like Puppet for OpenStack installations, and provides examples of how to use Puppet to deploy and manage OpenStack components and services. The presentation was given by Christopher Aedo on July 5, 2012.
Visible is a company that provides social media monitoring, analytics, and engagement services to help customers understand discussions and measure campaign results. They have large data sets from sources like Twitter, Facebook, and blogs. They use techniques like data enrichment, aggregation, and reporting to make the data more useful for customers in areas like marketing, communications, and research. The document discusses some of the technical and business challenges in building models from large and noisy social media data sets at scale, as well as two case studies - one on language detection modeling and another analyzing Delta Airlines' response to reports of needles found in sandwiches on flights.
A 1015 update to the 2012 "Data Big and Broad" talk - http://www.slideshare.net/jahendler/data-big-and-broad-oxford-2012 - extends coverage, brings more in context of recent "big data" work.
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An updated "what is happening on the Semantic Web" presentation for 2010 - includes business use, government use, and some speculation on the current areas of excitement and development. A very accessible talk, not aimed solely at a technical audience.
The document discusses The Washington Post's adoption of AWS and digital transformation efforts. It provides details on:
1) How The Post migrated systems and tools to AWS to improve scalability, performance, and innovation.
2) New tools and platforms The Post developed on AWS, like Arc Publishing, which are now used by other media companies.
3) How The Post uses AWS services like machine learning to improve content recommendations and moderation.
Linked Data: The Real Web 2.0 (from 2008)Uche Ogbuji
"Linking Open Data (LOD) is a community initiative moving the Web from the idea of separated documents to a wide information space of data. The key principles of LOD are that it is simple, readily adaptable by Web developers, and complements many other popular Web trends. Linked, open data is the real substance of Web 2.0, and not flashy AJAX effects. Learn how to make your data more widely used by making its components easier to discover, more valuable, and easier for people to reuse—in ways you might not anticipate."
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FIWARE Global Summit - FIROS: Helping Robots to be Context AwareFIWARE
Presentation by Peter Detzner
Automation and Embedded Systems, Fraunhofer-Institut für Material Fluss und Logistik IML
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27-28 November 2018
Malaga, Spain
Integrate Big Data into Your Organization with Informatica and PerficientPerficient, Inc.
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The document provides an introduction to the information and library services at Cambridge Judge Business School. It summarizes the team, databases, website, and additional library features. The session introduces the library team and highlights some key databases for research. It also describes additional services like referencing support, teaching sessions, and relaxation features of the library like DVDs, books, and games.
Introduction to VR and related technologies and an explanation of why it belongs in the library. Detailed examples of VR applications in higher education.
Breaking the Oracle Tie; High Performance OLTP and Analytics Using MongoDBMongoDB
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3. Join our local users groups
Toronto SharePoint Users Group
http://www.meetup.com/TorontoSPUG/
Toronto SharePoint Business Users Group
http://www.meetup.com/TSPBUG/
61. Shared Drive Zoo X:
Production
Sales &
Marketing
Marketing
Commercial Industrial Government Healthcare
Labs Hospitals
Private Public
Large
Urban
Not
Associated
University
Rural
Medium Small
Clinics Mobile
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Taxonomy
64. Shared Drive Zoo X:
Production
Sales &
Marketing
Marketing
Major
Hospitals
Commercial Industrial Government Healthcare
Labs Hospitals
Private Public
Large
Urban
Not
Associated
University
Rural
Medium Small
Clinics Mobile Colleges
Big Small
Sales Web Design Newsletter Social
70. Customer Type
• Lab
• Hospital
• Clinic
• Mobile
Sector
• Private
• Public
Size
• Large
• Medium
• Small
Location
• Urban
• Rural
University
• Yes
• No
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Editor's Notes
This answer helps exactly no-one.
…and you’ll have to fight hard for the win
Afixie riding hipster who does user interface design (UX?)Information Architecture Institute (iainstitute.org), who defines information architecture as:1. The structural design of shared information environments.2. The art and science of organizing and labeling web sites, intranets, onlinecommunities, and software to support usability and findability.3. An emerging community of practice focused on bringing principles of designand architecture to the digital landscape.
Or, more of a business analyst, working with stakeholders to establish requirements?International Institute of Business Analysis (www.iiba.org) :A business analyst works as a liaison among stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems. The business analyst understands business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements, and recommends solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
I feel like I have to cover both of those as a consultant who works to understand the goals of my stakeholders, and then architect the solution
A lot of doing this job well comes down to soft skills: - Listening - Honesty - Humour
If you have three main stakeholders, and they have different mental models for what success looks like, then you have zero chance of real success. Only when you have shared commitment to the same goal, do you have any chance at success.
This is the most important message of this talk: You MUST achieve a shared understanding to have a chance at success.
Mind mapping – wireframing – process flow diagramming
Everyone knows…
It’s “Data about Data” as Einstein proved all those years ago
This answer helps exactly no-one.
I won’t tell you yet but…It is an iterative process – you won’t understand it right away, but you will circle in towards understanding over time[ANIMATED]
Metadata is a new concept for manyUse of metaphors to explain the concepts
Metadata is a new concept for manyUse of metaphors to explain the concepts
If you were to ask a child: What does a cow say? How would they answer?
Ok, so that was goofing around – now let’s get serious.
The music is the contentYou can know a lot of facts about the album:PrincePop/Rock1984You can know all the facts, but it doesn’t substitute for the content (the music)(Purple Rain example originally suggested by Yoav Lurie)
How do you sort CD’sArtist?Title?Year?Genre?Colour?You have to decide up-front – and stick to it –because the objects are physical
What if the store was full of unlabeled tin cans?You would need to open every can to see if had what you wanted(Tin can example originally suggested by Serge Tremblay)
Now we don’t need to open each can, but they are all in a jumble and you have to pick up each can to check if has what you want.
Items are grouped by area (canned fruit, canned sauce, canned vegetables)Signs point you to the correct area so that you can quickly find what you need.BUT: Because the objects are physical, you need to pick a method and stick to it
This uses the base metaphor that we live with every day.The concept of a “file” and a “file folder” as a way of storing digital data is a metaphor taken from the world of paper managementIt has become so ingrained, that we think of it as natural, but it’s not: It was invented in 1983 by Apple (wikipedia)
Old apple interface from the 80’s
All your files are stored in one folder and their names are completely meaninglessThis is like the unlabeled cans: You have to open each file to see what it contains
You have a bit of a better situationThe naming convention lets you find the file you need (but there’s no way to sort by year)Rely on users to follow the naming convention (religiously)
A ha!Now we’re in great shape. We’re like the supermarketStructured and LabelledBUT...
... then, you hire a summer internWho doesn’t know the folder hierarchy and makes up their own
Findability is challengingPutability is the real problemThis is Bill English’s word for knowing where to save a documentWhat if we could make putability easier while also improving findability?This is the promise of metadata
Data about dataYes, but not enough info Seth Maislin of Earley & Assoc. says it's the "Is-ness" of something:This 'is' a contract. That 'is' a pop album.For us it enables findability, policy and processFindability for locating the right documentsPolicy – records managementProcess – Status of a business process (e.g. Not started, In process, Complete, Approved, Archived)
So, let’s create an alternative structure that is logically equivalent, but that makes putability much easier while preserving findabilityBy the way: One way to start to figure out an organization’s metadata is to look at the folder names.You will probably not want to simply copy this, but it can be a good guide/starting point
It’s not this… (visual joke)[ANIMATED]
It’s not this… (visual joke)[ANIMATED]
It’s this…Not really this, but let’s use these creatures to understand.
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy
This works because it’s really about governance – this is a stable structure that can’t be changed by just anybody:Changing this structure requires a world-wide meeting of the top scientists in the field, usually involving name-calling and fist-fights (or so I’ve heard)[ANIMATED]
Did you catch the subtle change here.The taxonomy is now of your ‘X’ drive.
And this is a common result
The asymmetry is that you’ll spend less time looking for a place to save something then you will looking for something after the fact.
Problem here is lack of governance – anyone can add any folder anywhere anytimeThis boils down to the ‘putability’ problem – I’ll search for a long time to find a doc, but not for long to see where to put it.[ANIMATED]
Once you’ve migrated your x drive to SharePoint, and all the promised benefits fail to emerge, The reaction is: (next slide)
Never, ever, use folders!Except when it makes sense to do so.[ANIMATED]
Never, ever, use folders!Except when it makes sense to do so.[ANIMATED]
[ANIMATED] Here is one reason to use folders: Application of security and then simplifying it for the user by using the ‘no folders’ view.
I’m not Carl, but let’s talk about why this works.After all, it’s the same as a directory treeThe difference is governance
Is this too many to ask for?Do we force users to answer all these questions/enter all this data?
Instead of confusing people with the SharePoint interface, I use a familiar tool: ExcelUsing some simple macros, I am able to illustrate the power of filters and views.There’s no free lunch however: People now have to enter metadata.We can simplify this by defaulting values like “Date” to today and “Year” to current year.We can leverage content types as well
Explain metadata and then use this worksheet for ‘homework’
Think of them as different forms with slots to fill in.Two documents may have overlapping slots (or, metadata).It may make sense to store these two types of docs in the same library (HR Requests), but use content types to drive workflow, policy and prompt users only for the metadata that applies.[ANIMATED]
Think of them as different forms with slots to fill in.Two documents may have overlapping slots (or, metadata).It may make sense to store these two types of docs in the same library (HR Requests), but use content types to drive workflow, policy and prompt users only for the metadata that applies.[ANIMATED]
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Using mind-mapping tools to build the taxonomy from the homeworkI use MindJet MindManager – and I like and highly recommend it.There are other tools that are less expensive.
There are two types of problems: Tame & Wicked.Landing a person on the moon is Tame (but really, really complex)Solving poverty is wickedYou don’t understand the problem until you’ve developed the solutionYou don’t really know when you’ve accomplished the goalSolutions are not right or wrong, they are just better or worseEvery wicked problem is uniqueEvery solution is a one-shot operationYou are dealing with social complexity
All the mapping that I’ve shown so far, uses facilitation and a shared display.The new thing is IBIS: Issue Based Information System
IBIS grammar has only four elements: Question, Idea, Pro, and ConIdeas respond to questions (and ONLY questions)Pro’s support ideas (and ONLY ideas)Con’s challenge ideas (and ONLY ideas)Questions can respond to anything