DATAFACET™ for SharePoint 2010

Introducing DATAFACET™ for SharePoint 2010 - taxonomy and tagging for the real world.

The Macro Philosophy:

• Provide curated foundation taxonomies for enterprise knowledge domains.
• Provide auto-classification of enterprise documents.
• Provide taxonomy management tools to customize and perfect the foundation taxonomies.
• Provide intuitive navigation and information discovery of enterprise documents.
• The end result: extraordinary relevance of search results for the enterprise user.

DATAFACET 2010 is tightly integrated with SharePoint 2010.  It leverages the powerful new term store application service built-in to SharePoint and enhances it.   Not only can you store and normalize enterprise key words, but now you can use them to automatically classify documents as users add them to SharePoint.

Foundation Taxonomies

DATAFACET Foundation Taxonomies from WAND, Inc. provide a semantic jump-start.   Building organizational taxonomies from scratch can take months or even years.   Pre-built taxonomies for DATAFACET are curated by subject-matter experts all over the world and give instant ROI for any taxonomy project.

Our Foundation Taxonomies are very thorough, but you may want to add your own terms and rules specific to your organization.  That's why DATAFACET provides taxonomy management tools to enable you to customize the taxonomies.   Every organization is different, with its own terminology and product names.   A DATAFACET Foundation Taxonomy is a framework that you can tweak to suit your unique needs.  

Taxonomy Manager

The Taxonomy Manager uses the new Application Service feature of SharePoint to provie a tightly integrated experience to import, create and manage foundation taxonomies.  It is fully integrated with SharePoint and complements the load balancing and scalability of SharePoint 2010.

Creating a new taxonomy from scratch is easy.   Simply type in the name and press "Create".  

Importing a foundation taxonomy is just as easy.   Browse to the XML file containing the WAND Foundation Taxonomy and click "Upload".   Foundation taxonomies are individually licensed, and can be customized for your particular mix of content.

Taxonomy Editor

The DATAFACET Taxonomy Editor allows you to customize and test the taxonomy against real data.  

Taxonomy Panel

The taxonomy panel is for modifying the structure of the taxonomy.  Drag-and-drop, insert, delete and rename categories with ease.  

Properties Panel

Add categorization rules with our rich, easy-to-use query language.   Supports boolean, proximity, stemming and field queries with a familiar syntax.

Results Panel

Test categorization rules directly against your documents for immediate feedback on which documents will be matched by the rules.   This is an invaluable feature for taxonomy authors.

Preview Panel

The preview panel shows a plain text, highlighted view of the document, a list of the document properties and a tree view of categories that match the selected document.   See how any document will be categorized and it is easy to fine-tune the rules.

Taxonomy Server and Annotator

The DATAFACET Taxonomy Server is a fast, powerful rules engine that can classify a document against thousands of rules in milliseconds.  

The Annotor component integrates with SharePoint 2010 document events.  When you add a document to SharePoint, the Annotator detects the change and automatically categorizes the document against the Taxonomy Server.   It adds the matching taxonomy categories to the Enterprise Keywords field in the site collection.  

All of the SharePoint 2010 enterprise keyword features are preserved and augmented by DATAFACET.