German Aerospace Center (DLR) Navigated Their Confluence Maze with Metadata
For years, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) relied on email and other traditional document management systems. Under the leadership of André Pliewischkies, Knowledge Manager at DLR, the company introduced Confluence to reduce information silos and bring more transparency to the internal network.
Their issue?
Collecting institutional information was difficult with unstructured metadata, especially for new employees who were not familiar with internal terms and processes. Any metadata within standard Confluence such as page properties cannot be used for filtering – except labels. Even then, these labels are unstructured data.
So DLR needed a solution to bring consistency to metadata, structure to its wiki, and greater efficiency to knowledge management.
How did they use Metadata for Confluence?
Metadata for Confluence simplified wiki management by allowing space administrators to define which metadata had to be filled at page creation. Predefined fields and data sets helped with:
Plus, Metadata for Confluence included macros that let employees quickly generate overviews of wiki content, build knowledge bases, create personalized dashboards and more.
The results.
Metadata for Confluence gave them deeper insight into the data that lay at the heart of their instance. It also made it much easier for new colleagues to navigate the wiki and for anyone working in Confluence to find the information they were looking for.
“It offers an incredibly high potential for processing and sorting information,” commented André Pliewischkies. “What I like about it is the bandwidth of content lists that I can create with the actual Metadata Overview macro because it also includes existing page metadata like excerpts of the pages.”