Microsoft Office System SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Alex D. Wade Program Manager Information Worker Solutions Group Microsoft Corp. Search and Metadata

Agenda Internal Environmental at Microsoft Internal Environmental at Microsoft  What we have done to date SharePoint Products & Technologies SharePoint Products & Technologies  Windows SharePoint Services  Lists & Schemas  SharePoint Portal Server  Search Interface  Property Mapping  Query Modification

Internal Environmental Heterogeneity of Content & Metadata Heterogeneity of Content & Metadata  Volume & location of content  Definition of search objects  Where Metadata “lives” Transitivity & Temporality of Content Transitivity & Temporality of Content  Is Lifecycle information just metadata, or  Does applied metadata have its own lifecycle Local vs. Global needs Local vs. Global needs  Language  Granularity  Controlled Vocabularies Search Interface is not the only Entry Point Search Interface is not the only Entry Point

Internal Solutions What we have done internally What we have done internally  Query analysis tools  Core metadata schema  Metadata Management System  Core Schema management  Associated vocabularies  Both extensible  Integration w/existing CMS & DM environments  Exposure via Web Services

SharePoint Products and Technologies Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)   Provides workspaces for teams to share information and collaborate Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server   Provides a central hub to organize and enable access to information, applications, people and teams SharePoint Portal Server builds on top of Windows SharePoint Services SharePoint Portal Server builds on top of Windows SharePoint Services   Provides both portal sites as well as the place to create, organize and enhance personal and team sites

SharePoint Lists Lists Lists  Links  Tasks  Surveys  Events  Image Libraries  Document Libraries  more … Views Views  Calendar  Survey results graphs  Filters  Grouping  Sorting  more …

Custom Lists & Views Create lists w/custom properties Create lists w/custom properties  Data-typing  Manage lookup lists  Mappable  Queryable Custom Views Custom Views  Group Web Service accessible Web Service accessible

Search Interface First-order objects for: First-order objects for:  Lists  People (w/ Presence information)  Categories Group-by feature Group-by feature  Author  Site  Date  Category

Property Mapping View indexed properties View indexed properties Grouped by namespace Grouped by namespace Remove from index Remove from index Map to other properties Map to other properties Expose in search results Expose in search results Expose in fielded search Expose in fielded search

Property Mapping

Analyst Architect AutherAuthorAuthor-CorporateAuthor.CorporateAuthor2Authors CMAuthor CreatedBy CreatorContentAuthorDocAuthor…Video_CreatorWeb_AuthorZD_AuthorCreator aliased as DC.CREATOR mapped to

Query Modification Keyword “Best Bets” Keyword “Best Bets”  Rank Promotion  Synonym Support Query Term Replacement Query Term Replacement  Misspellings  Highly controlled content sets Query Term Expansion Query Term Expansion  Synonym Sets for FT Search  ‘Intent’ equivalence

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