Enterprise Metadata Management (EMM)

Enterprise metadata management (EMM) is a set of features introduced in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 that enable taxonomists, librarians, and administrators to create and manage terms and sets of terms across the enterprise. Key features include:

A new Managed Metadata Service that provides consistent metadata and shared taxonomies across multiple SharePoint Server sites in the enterprise.

The new managed metadata features in SharePoint Server 2010 are enabled by a new Managed Metadata Service application that provides support for two key things:
 

Content Type Publishing: The sharing of content types across site collections and Web applications. For more information about content type publishing

Taxonomies are hierarchical groupings of metadata, hierarchy, and other elements that provide meaning (such as descriptions, synonyms, and translations).

 

The Term Management tool, which provides:

Service management: Access all available term store databases from one location.

Security groups: Control how users can create, edit, or delete by using SharePoint Server users and groups.

Term sets: Containers that you can use to organize, group, and share hierarchies of terms.

The ability to apply metadata in the Web browser, through Microsoft Office 2010 client applications and through third-party custom applications, by using the Taxonomy object model. 

 

The Managed Metadata Service and Term Management tool capabilities that are available through the user interface (UI) are powerful and flexible, and enable users to manage diverse, large, and complex metadata and taxonomies.

 

The benefits of managed metadata are:-

Consistent use of metadata  

Improved content discoverability

Increased flexibility

 

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