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 2007 (MOSS).
The course is designed to help taxonomists, information architects, and content managers develop a MOSS 2007 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 MOSS 2007 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 MOSS 2007, including its benefits to your organization;
Access to a MOSS 2007 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 MOSS 2007 from Microsoft.
COURSE OUTLINE
Section 1: How to select a project and define requirements
• How to create an overall implementation plan and select an architecture
• How to create a plan for search
Section 2: How to create a metadata repository
• Metadata for people and organizations
• Metadata for documents and other content objects
Section 3: How to create a taxonomy and thesaurus
• How to create a controlled vocabulary
• How to create a thesaurus
• How to create relationships: people/documents, documents/terms
Section 4: Customizing Sharepoint search
• How to create a Sharepoint user interface for search
• How to export metadata in Sharepoint format
• How to evaluate third-party tools
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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 MOSS 2007 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;
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 (413) 367-0245 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
April 28, 2008
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