1	Linking a Thesaurus To SharePoint for Content Management Scott Denning Tao Liu Access Innovations, Inc.
2	ASRT Taxonomy American Society of Radiologic Technologists Membership organization, more than 100,000 members Access Innovations, Inc. Taxonomy to encompass Knowledge domain Organizational structure
3	ASRT Taxonomy Intent was to have the taxonomy serve both as a structure for indexing documents, and eventually as a tool which would facilitate keyword suggestion for documents at time of generation. Thus, terms needed to be linked to content, as well as descriptive of content
4	ASRT Taxonomy Not just for indexing, but in support of total content management of documents from many different sources
5	Requirements Use metadata from existing documents, as well as providing/suggesting metadata for created documents ASRT is a “MicroSoft Shop” Support storage as XML documents MS Office 2003, XML support features SharePoint™
6	SharePoint Supports taxonomies, but does not provide taxonomies SharePoint’s strengths are collaboration, version control, and searching. Provides some basic hierarchical structure: Categories Keywords “Best Bets”
7	The Challenges: Integrate ASRT taxonomy with SharePoint, allowing users to exploit familiar features while capitalizing on the hierarchical structure of the taxonomy. Use M.A.I.™ (Machine Aided Indexer) to suggest terms from the taxonomy as keywords at the time of document generation.
8	The Challenges – cont’d M.A.I. to run quietly in the background until needed Provide/suggest indexing terms as document is versioned or finalized
9	Requirements Encompass full trajectory of documents: creation – search – repurposing - archiving Broad range of documents – administrative, accounting, archival, educational, etc. Different document formats Flexible for content management
10	Interlink Colorado-based group specializing in technology architecture, including SharePoint
11	M.A.I. Considerations M.A.I. is a text-based tool; documents are in many formats Should allow familiar SharePoint search features to be used, while also suggesting indexing terms/keywords
12	Access work Programs written to allow M.A.I. to handle documents in different formats: Word (.doc) Excel (.xls) PowerPoint (.ppt) Collaborative work: .pdf soon…
13	The Future? SharePoint/M.A.I. used to identify “expert users” within ASRT, based upon congruency of individuals’ keyword usage with taxonomy terms M.A.I. embedded within/merged with other programs, using versions of code written for this project