What Trails To Leave Behind

April 3, 2013 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on What Trails To Leave Behind

Debating the approach of spreading documents over varioius document libraries (as opposed to focusing on one singular library), one author lifts up a pros and cons list that could bring some insight to your work.

Business 2 Community brought this topic to our attention in their article, “7 Good Reasons to Create a New Document Library. (And 3 Bad  Ones).” The author admits she recommends the singular approach, but offers good reasons to at least consider both. Some expected reasons include different audiences, different owners, very different set of metadata, and complex or too much metadata. What you might not expect to see in the list is not using metadata at all.

We all know that metadata is the path to locating your data. The breadcrumbs that make searches fast, comprehensive, and rewarding.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.