Planning for and configuring managed metadata

In this series of sections and tasks, you'll learn about the terminology related to metadata and content classification, as well as the tools and options available for making metadata available to your users.

Overview and terminology

When discussing metadata, these terms are used to describe the core concepts:

• Taxonomy: This is a formal, hierarchical grouping of words, labels, and terms that are used to describe something.
• Folksonomy: This is an informal classification system containing labels, keywords, and terms applied by end users to describe something. If you've seen blog sites that have categories and tags, that could be an example of a folksonomy.
• Terms: This...