Drupal taxonomy
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The document discusses several taxonomy modules for Drupal: - Primary Term allows assigning a primary term to nodes for better information architecture and URLs. - Taxonomy Manager helps manage and control taxonomy terms to prevent uncontrolled growth of tags. - Content Taxonomy and Taxonomy Image provide additional controls and functionality for taxonomy terms. - Geo Taxonomy links taxonomy terms to geographic locations for tagging nodes with locations. - OpenCalais allows automatic tagging of content by extracting terms from Thomson Reuters. - In Drupal 7, taxonomy terms are fields, which changes how terms can be associated with content and reduces need for some modules.
Drupal taxonomy
- 1. The Guardian 09 / 11 / 10 The Web A-Team http://www.web-a-team.com The Web A-Team Taxonomy Everywhere Taxonomy modules: the modules you really need to know
- 2. The Guardian 09 / 11 / 10 The Web A-Team http://www.web-a-team.com 1. All terms are not equal: Primary Term Why? Because sometimes a node needs to have a main term assigned Very useful for information architecture Can be easily tweaked to have a nice UI How? www.mysite.com/culture => (section site, based on views or taxonomy term page) www.mysite.com/culture/article-1234 (article resides in main section ”culture”) http://drupal.org/project/primary_term Popularity: 203 sites D7 status: to be ported
- 3. The Guardian 09 / 11 / 10 The Web A-Team http://www.web-a-team.com 2. Taxonomy Manager: a good taxonomy is managed Why? Because taxonomy terms can get out of control (especially with tags) Because a site with a controlled folksonomy looks better for users What can be done? Merging, mass deleting, change in hierarchy Moving terms across vocabularies http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_manager Popularity: 18578 sites D7 status: D7CX
- 4. The Guardian 09 / 11 / 10 The Web A-Team http://www.web-a-team.com 3. Content Taxonomy: for better UI control Why? Opening up some widgets Can be sometimes interesting to save terms into CCK tables I suspect is widely used to control taxonomy positions on edit forms (adding it to groups etc...) http://drupal.org/project/content_taxonomy Popularity: 20738 sites D7 status: functionality in core
- 5. The Guardian 09 / 11 / 10 The Web A-Team http://www.web-a-team.com 4. Taxonomy Image: adding images to terms Why? Because it is interesting to add images to terms This makes theming easier No need to build a complex system by creating a specific content type http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_image Popularity: 7907 sites D7 status: functionality in core
- 6. The Guardian 09 / 11 / 10 The Web A-Team http://www.web-a-team.com 5. Geo Taxonomy: linking taxonomy and geolocation Why? It makes sense when you have to use taxonomy and geo location services It is easier for users to tag a node than adding geo-information to a node It allows a good integration with OpenLayers to display terms on a map http://drupal.org/project/geotaxonomy Popularity: 1255 sites D7 status: ? Linked to OpenLayers...
- 7. The Guardian 09 / 11 / 10 The Web A-Team http://www.web-a-team.com 6. OpenCalais: Thomson / Reuters term extractor Why? Because you want to auto-tag content You want to rely on a central authority to tag content between different users It is a quick way to add semantic web to your content (adds RDF support, Linked Data...) http://drupal.org/project/opencalais Popularity: 4872 sites D7 status: D7CX Included in OpenPublish, Managing News
- 8. The Guardian 09 / 11 / 10 The Web A-Team http://www.web-a-team.com 7. Taxonomy in D7 Taxonomy terms are now fields: They can associated to node, comments, users... Fields can be added to terms so: Taxonomy image is obsolete Most of the modules extending terms will also be obsolete No need to create specific content types if content has to be the basis for classification This will change site architecture