Concept Searching has announced the availability of a Distributed Taxonomy Management feature for conceptClassifier for SharePoint. This feature is a requirement for organizations who have many taxonomy operators, extremely large collections of documents, and where taxonomy management is a critical business process. This feature can be implemented on any number of servers and several taxonomy managers can be assigned to a server to ensure the level of throughput needed. Real time locking mechanisms are used to make nodes of the taxonomy inaccessible to other taxonomy managers while the node is being edited. The taxonomy managers can visually see when a node is locked and who has locked it as well as when it becomes available. The Distributed Taxonomy Management feature is totally transparent to the end user and all locking and unlocking of the nodes by the taxonomy managers are coordinated by the central server.
Concept Searching’s conceptClassifier for SharePoint is the only statistical based classification and taxonomy solution to use concept extraction and conceptual metadata generation to achieve the optimal approach to manage unstructured content. Features including automatic compound term and conceptual metadata generation, automated classification and innovative taxonomy tools result in a new approach proven to solve traditional knowledge management challenges. Highly flexible, the technologies run natively in Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and 2010; Microsoft Office; SharePoint and FAST Search; and Windows Server 2008 R2 FCI. The technologies are being used to solve a wide range of challenges in Search, Enterprise Content Management, Records Management, Compliance, Data Privacy, and Litigation Support.
“We are pleased to offer the Distributed Taxonomy Management as a feature for our large clients. A typical implementation requires only one server but for those clients who have very large scale taxonomies, or many taxonomy managers working simultaneously, the ability to lock nodes and spread the taxonomy management over multiple servers is of real value, especially when tuning the classification rules.” said John Challis, CTO/CEO of Concept Searching.
