Tagging tool aids SharePoint migration
Layer2 Auto Tagger is a new SharePoint add-on to auto-tag items and documents based on classification rules in order to accelerate migration projects.
By default SharePoint 2010 offers a manual tagging feature only.
“The initial content tagging process required for thousands of documents definitely lowered user acceptance in our migration projects”, explains Frank Daske, Business Development Manager at Layer2.
“The potential benefit of the new features can hardly be obtained by means of manual tagging. That’s why we have created the Auto Tagger extension.”
It automatically categorises SharePoint items and documents in background using taxonomy-based managed metadata or terms organised in the term store. Tag rules, item or document properties, metadata, the information store context and textual document contents are considered with the auto-classification.
Auto Tagger could be helpful for initial tagging, e.g. after content migration from any system to SharePoint 2010, and for daily background operation. List items are processed as well as enterprise documents and files located in SharePoint libraries.
The add-on is integrated with the default SharePoint tagging process and manually assigned tags are kept untouched.
The open API also allows existing third party solutions for text-mining, rule generation etc. to plug in.
Auto Tagger is a component of Layer2’s Knowledge Management Suite for SharePoint 2010. which also offers improved taxonomy management, content-based tag suggestions, auto tagger and metadata navigation Web Parts.