Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 enables users to create and manage metadata across the organization and it is a set of features available in to 2010 that enables relevant users to create and manage complex metadata solutions across the organization.

SharePoint Labs can help you explore following features in to SharePoint 2010 to help you implement required solution on turnkey basis or on consulting basis.

  • Managed Metadata Service – Provides consistent metadata and shared taxonomies across multiple SharePoint Server sites in the organization. It is also a single term store. Termstores are databases that contain one or more taxonomies and can be associated with Web Applications.
  • Taxonomies are hierarchical groupings of metadata, hierarchy, and other elements that provide meaning (such as descriptions, synonyms, and translations).
  • The Term Management tool, which provides:
  • Service management: Access all available term store databases from one location.
  • Security groups: Control how users can create, edit, or delete by using SharePoint Server users and groups.
  • Term sets: Containers that you can use to organize, group, and share hierarchies of terms.
  • The ability to apply metadata in the Web browser, through Microsoft Office 2010 client applications and through third-party custom applications, by using the Taxonomy object model. The Taxonomy object model is described later in this article.

The Managed Metadata Service and Term Management tool capabilities that are available through the user interface (UI) are powerful and flexible, and enable users to manage diverse, large, and complex metadata and taxonomies.