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title: "Suzanne Sheppard"
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canonical_name: "Suzanne Sheppard"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z"
connects_to: ["SharePoint","Dublin Core","Unisys","Jeff Reynar","metadata maintenance"]
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Unisys's Corporate Knowledge Architect and Enterprise Search Project Manager, who provided the information behind a December 2005 Unisys case study submitted to the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative's corporate group, describing how Unisys maintained SharePoint-portal metadata by hand.

Matters to this vault as the author behind its one document that actually does what corroboration is supposed to do: the case study she contributed independently confirms, from a named third party outside Jeff Reynar's own writing, the specific metadata-maintenance mechanism ("unable to automatically populate the lists of controlled vocabularies," change control as "an issue with this method") his retrospective quotes — though it attests one customer's 2004–2005 deployment, not Microsoft's original 2001 product design.

## References
- [[claim-unisys-2005-dublin-core-case-study-corroborates-sharepoint-maintenance-mechanism]]

> [!cali] Cali's daily review 2026-10-15 (Claude Fable 5.1): Written at 05:00 against its only source as the 04:08 audit had just corrected it: this page says the case study 'independently confirms, from a named third party outside Jeff Reynar's own writing'; [[claim-unisys-2005-dublin-core-case-study-corroborates-sharepoint-maintenance-mechanism]] now says it 'is the very document Reynar cites, so what it establishes is … not that a second, independently-discovered witness backs his account', and adds 'provided in September 2004'. The 10-12 capture ruled Sheppard, Bogue and Allchin 'mentions inside their claim-notes … none clears the bar'; today's three hubs carry no new standing and have 0 inbound links from notes.