Information Architecture (IA) for a large organization is often as complex as a twisting labyrinth. In this session, I will explain and demonstrate, why a good IA design is important for search and also provides best practices on how to plan, maintain and govern it.
4. Agenda
⢠Information Architecture:
Organize and Classify the Content
⢠Enterprise Search:
Find the Proper and Relevant Content
in the current Context
5. Information Architecture
The art and science of organizing and labeling
the CONTENT
to support findability and usability
11. Organize and Classify Content
in SharePoint
Document
Libraries &
Folders
Content Types
Document
Sets
Managed
Metadata
Document ID Workflows
Content
Organizer
Rules
âŚ
12. Folders or Not Folders?
⢠Linear Structure
⢠Requires drilling down to sub-folders
⢠Difficulty in finding content
⢠Inefficient during upload
⢠Every File HAS to belong to ONE folder
⢠Moving document = URL change
⢠Deep folder structure = long URL
⢠Max URL length: 256 characters
13. Folders or Not Folders?
⢠Lack of flexibility in views
⢠No Synonyms
⢠Folder names cannot contain special characters
⢠Folder structure can be modified by any team member
(Contributor)
15. Folders or Not Folders? - Alternatives
Tagging
(Metadata)
Document
ID
Content
Type
Document
Set
15
16. Why Keep Using Folders?
Risk of low user
adoption
Metadata is a
huge mind shift
Permission model
(folder-level)
Bulk upload â No
metadata
enforcing/support
17. How to use Folders?
Combine
⢠Folders
⢠Metadata
⢠Content Types
⢠Document Sets
⢠âŚ
Create âWithout Foldersâ View
⢠Hides folder structure
⢠Eliminates hierarchy
22. Content Types
Document
Document_Root
Contract
Technical
Document
Requirements
System
Requirements
Functional
Requirements
Case Study User Manual
Marketing
Presentation
For Business
Decision Makers
For Developers
For Admins
28. Common Requirements
⢠âI want Google-like Search in my Enterpriseâ
⢠âI want it just work.â
⢠âWe have 666 million documents. I want to be able to find
everything.â
30. Organize and Refine Results
in SharePoint Search
⢠Refinement Panel
⢠Managed Properties
⢠Result Sources / Query Rules
⢠Properties (Metadata)
⢠Content Source
⢠Content Type
⢠âŚ
⢠Core Results Web Part
⢠Managed Properties
⢠Customization
⢠Hover Panel
⢠Managed Properties
⢠Customization
31. Search Metadata â
Crawled/Managed Properties
⢠Crawled property: metadata extracted from the
documents/items during the crawl.
⢠Managed property: created from crawled properties, controlled
by the Search Admins, helping users perform more efficient and
successful queries:
⢠Refiners
⢠Properties displayed in Search Results
⢠Sorting Properties (FAST)
32. Search Metadata
Crawled Property Managed Property
Author
CreatedBy
From
Author
Usage
Refiner
Display on
Result Set
Display on
Hover
Panel
Sorting by
37. Security in Enterprise Search
Goal: to protect
Enterprise Search
from âsecurity
incidentsâ
Security Trimmed
Results
Enterprise Search
Security =
Content Security
Enterprise Search
!= Security Leak
38. Security in Search - Challenges
Content Security
Granularity
Tracking
Permissions
Manipulating
Permissions
AD Groups vs.
SharePoint Groups
vs. Custom Backend
Groups
Testing
41. thank you.
SHAREPOINT AND PROJECT CONFERENCE ADRIATICS
ZAGREB, 10/15/2014 - 10/16/2014
Editor's Notes
documents, web sites, blog posts, database entries, etc.
Create âFolder Viewâ for contributors
Create âNon-Folder Viewsâ for visitors (grouping, ordering, etc.)
Display Templates
Query Builder
Result Sources
Query Rules
âAn average person today processed more information in a single day
than a person in the 1500âs did in an entire lifetime.â
Context: Business models & goals, corporate culture, resources
[Where information is used]
Content: Document types Objects, structure, attributes, Meta-information
[How to describe the information]
Users: Information needs, audience types, expertise, tasks
[How to Use the Information]
Resource: Configure properties of the Search Box Web Part in SharePoint Server 2013 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg576963.aspx).
Taxonomy-Based Navigation
Dynamic
Search-Driven Catalogs by Navigation