Pre-defined taxonomies, ready to import in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and into the FREE Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 can be licensed and integrated out-of-the-box into your existing intranet, content management application, knowledge management portal, or any other application that would benefit from The Power of a robust taxonomy-based classification or search. The taxonomies are flexible and can be easily customized and modified to address unique organizational requirements. No additional software is required.
Knowledge Management and Social Networking are Unleashed, for real this time, with the upcoming new version of Microsoft SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 now fills the big Gaps in 2007, with managed taxonomies and folksonomies, expertise finding, content rating, and commenting.
To unlock the enterprise value of these technologies pre-defined industry-specific taxonomies - ready to import into the SharePoint Term Store without any additional tools as Managed Metadata - could help to successfully make a semantic jump start. In cooperation with WAND, Ink. - one of the leading providers of enterprise taxonomies - Layer2 now offers Taxonomy Metadata for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.
Pre-defined Taxonomy Metadata for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 are currently available in 13 languages, e.g. English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese.