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

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

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

4. Internal Solutions • 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

5. SharePoint Products and Technologies • Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) • Provides workspaces for teams to share information and collaborate • 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 • Provides both portal sites as well as the place to create, organize and enhance personal and team sites

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

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

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

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

10. Property Mapping

12. mapped to Creator DC.CREATOR aliased as Property Mapping AnalystArchitect Auther Author Author-Corporate Author.Corporate Author2 Authors CMAuthorCreatedBy Creator ContentAuthor DocAuthor … Video_Creator Web_Author ZD_Author

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

16. More Information • Table in the lobby • http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/ Alex D. Wade awade@microsoft.com