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Taxonomies, Search & SharePoint Hands-on

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This hands-on distance learning course shows you how to create and use taxonomies and metadata to enhance information retrieval in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. The course is designed to help taxonomists, information architects, and content managers develop a SharePoint implementation plan for optimizing search, at both the enterprise and department level.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
At the end of the course, you should be able to:

• Plan a SharePoint architecture that serves the needs of both enterprise and departmental search;
• Use a metadata management system to customize SharePoint search;
• Evaluate third-party applications that enhance SharePoint search;
• Create a system of metrics to measure search effectiveness and better support site owners, editors, and authors.

WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE
This course is designed for Web site publishers, content owners, knowledge managers, technical writers, e-commerce managers, editors and others who want to learn how to enhance and compliment the full text search function. You can take the course alone, but your organization will get a better return on its educational investment if two to four people enroll as a team. See also How to get university credit.

COURSE FORMAT
The course is conducted via teleconference, e-mail, and the Web. You can take the course from any location.

PREREQUISITES
To take the course, you'll need the following:

• A basic familiarity with Sharepoint (2007 and/or 2010), including its benefits to your organization;
• Access to a Sharepoint 2010 development server and assistance with loading exported files for synonyms, keywords, and people;
• Internet access and a Web browser.

You can download a free 180-day evaluation copy of SharePoint from Microsoft.

COURSE OUTLINE

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Lab The course requires you to select a project and gather Lab data for a real-world application. To save time, most data can be imported via Excel worksheets. At the conclusion of the course, your Lab data will be exported and sent to you for use in your own SharePoint system.

INSTRUCTORS

Jean Graef is a "boundary spanner" with an interdisciplinary background as a manager, entrepreneur, librarian, programmer, and journalist. She has been developing and conducting seminars on cutting edge information topics since the early 1980's.

DATE & TIME
You can start the Web course at any time and proceed at your own pace. You do not have to wait for a class to form. The amount of work involved is roughly equivalent to a semester's course at the graduate level. Most people can complete the course in three to six months. To minimize the time commitment without compromising the educational experience, you can:

• Take the course as an interdisciplinary team to share the workload;
• Narrow the scope of your Lab project;
• Extract data from existing corporate systems when possible;
• Build on data structures created in previous Montague Institute courses.

COST
$3,250 per person (nonmembers), $3,000 per person (members of the Society of Knowledge Base Publishers). Course fee includes Lab access for 60 days and assistance via phone and/or e-mail from the instructors.

HOW TO REGISTER
Call (423) 968-5584 to request a pro forma invoice or provide a credit card details (we accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club, and Discover).

Created on September 11, 2007 | Modified on June 21, 2010

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