introduction to drupal taxonomy

8/8/2019 Introduction To Drupal Taxonomy

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Taxonomy

Robert Castelo, Code Positive Ltd.


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Classifying Animals

Fish Insect

Bird Mammal


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by Habitat

Water Land, Air

Land, Air Land


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Fixed VocabularyVocabulary:

HabitatTerms:

Air Land

Water

Terms are pre-definedby site maintainers


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Fixed VocabularyVocabulary:

HabitatTerms:

Air Land

- Tropical- Polar

Water - Shallows- Deep

Terms can have multiple levels


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Terms are displayed as links atbottom of content


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User Entered Terms Those that belong to the Emperor Embalmed ones Those that are trained Suckling pigs Mermaids Fabulous ones Stray dogs Those included in the present classication Those that tremble as if they were mad Innumerable ones Those drawn with a very ne camelhair brush Others Those that have just broken a ower vase Those that from a long way off look like ies

From Borges fictional Chinese Encyclopaedia "Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge"


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Free Tagging

(or Folksonomy)Users add tags (terms) to content as it

is being created or edited.

Autocomplete is used to suggestexisting terms, to try to create

common classification.


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All terms are displayed together


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Vocabularies can be used acrossmultiple content types


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Display Content

by TermsTerm links below node content

lead to pages displaying all contenttagged with that term


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Click on Polar to see allcontent tagged with that term.

Term title & description


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Parent term doesnt displaycontent tagged with child terms.


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