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Getting the most out of Drupal's taxonomy system - Drupalcamp Colorado

Posted Wed, 2009-07-22 06:33 by matthew

David Lanier from Amarillo Texas attended camp in Colorado this year and presented on Taxonomy.

My notes are a little light from this session and I was at the back of the classroom - meaning the video isn't great. You'll probably want to wear headphones for the dialogue.

David managed the session like a meetup encouraging questions throughout.

David started with Concepts, and then looked at some Implementations, finally he looked at Alternatives.

Taxonomy is a system of classification, categories, tags, and naming. Taxonomy makes things easier to categorize.

The Terminology Of Taxonomy is helpful to define.

  • taxonomy is the "system"
  • vocabulary are "facets"
  • terms are "categories or tags"
  • tags are then applied to nodes

Taxonomy Manager - Helpful Drupal Module

Posted Fri, 2009-01-02 21:53 by matthew

Drupal's taxonomy system is one of its most powerful features and also one of the more tough things to wrap your head around.  Taxonomy can be used to categorize content -- tags that identify what the content is about -- and this can extend to showing only content that fits that category.  For example, you could identify books by subject matter and then on different landing pages only show that kind of book.  Taxonomy leverages the power of labeling and that power can then be let loose using merlinochaos' excellent Views module.