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Drupal’s
Taxonomy
System


Ma4hias
Hu4erer
(mh86)
 Drupalcamp
Vienna
 27.11.2009


About
Me


• Part‐Ime
Drupal
developer

• Studying
Business
InformaIcs
at
TU
Vienna


• ParIcipated
in
GSOC
2007

• Contributed
modules:
Taxonomy
Manager,


Content
Taxonomy,
Email
Field,
…


Agenda


• IntroducIon

• Contributed
Taxonomy
modules

• Drupal
7
improvements

• Taxonomy
Manager
Showcase


What
is
taxonomy?


• pracIce
and
science
of


classificaIon


• one
method
to
organize


content


• tags
and
administrator
defined


terms


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Why
taxonomy?


• make
it
easier
for
your
users
to
find
content

• make
use
of
exisIng
classificaIons

• allows
you
to
build
powerful
applicaIons


– recommendaIons,
faceted
search,
auto
 classificaIon,
…


New
York
Observer


Foreign
Affairs


Concepts


• Vocabulary


– groups
terms
that
describe
the
same
aspect
 – e.g.:
Topics,
Regions,
Genre,
Tags


• Term


– actual
category
 – relaIonships
to
other
terms:
hierarchical,
related‐to
 – a4ached
to
nodes
 – e.g.:
Sports,
Culture,
Europe,
Austria


Kinds
of
vocabularies


• Controlled
vocabularies


– list
of
predefined
terms
 – flat
list
or
hierarchical


• Freetagging
vocabularies


– user
defined
tags
 – no
structure


Hierarchical
Vocabularies


Topics Economics Business Finance Politics Government Interior Policy Sports Alpine Skiing Soccer

Features
(1/3) 


• AdministraIon
for


– vocabularies
 – terms


Features
(2/3)


• Form
fields
on
node
add


– select
list
 – autocomplete


Features
(3/3) 


• term
pages
where
nodes
with
that
term
are


listed


• RSS
feeds
that
list
nodes
of
the
same
type

• links
between
nodes
of
the
same
type


Term
Page
URLs 


• taxonomy/term/5

• taxonomy/term/5,6

• taxonomy/term/5+6

• taxonomy/term/5/1

• taxonomy/term/5/all

• taxonomy/term/5+6/0/feed


Contributed
Modules


Manage Form fields Display / Browse List / Search Content Navigation Recommendations Auto Categorize Import / Export Access Control

Managing
Terms 


• Taxonomy
Manager


– demo
later


• Term
Edit


– links
on
taxonomy
 lisIng
pages
to
 directly
edit
 taxonomy
terms
 – in
D7
core


Form
fields 


• Content
Taxonomy


– CCK
fields
for
referencing
terms
 – much
more
flexible
than
core
taxonomy
fields
 – many
widgets
available
 – D7:
Taxonomy
fields
in
core


• Hierarchical
Select

• AcIve
Tags


Form
fields 


Input
Terms 


Display
Terms 


• Tagadelic

• Vocabulary
Index


List
/
Search
Content 


• Views



– term
fields,
filters,
args


• Faceted
Search

• Apache
Solr


NavigaIon 


• Taxonomy
Menu


– exposes
vocabularies
as
menus


• Taxonomy
Breadcrumb


– generates
taxonomy
based
breadcrumbs
on
 node
and
term
pages
 – [Home]
>>
[Voc]
>>
Term
>>
[Term]
…


RecommendaIons 


• suggest
similar
content
to


users
based
on
terms


– Similar
by
Terms
 – Relevant
Content


Auto
Categorize 


• Open
Calais


– integraIon
of
Thomson
Reuters’
Calais
 webservice
 – automaIcally
analyzes
your
content
and
 generates
rich
semanIc
metadata


• Autotagger


– tags
a
node
with
a
term,
if
that
term
is
present
 within
the
text


Further
modules 


• Import
/
Export


– Taxonomy
XML
 – Taxonomy
CSV


• Access
Control


– Taxonomy
Access
Control
 – Taxonomy
Access
Control
Lite


Drupal
7
Improvements


• Term
Fields

• Fields
on
Terms


– Related
Terms
 – Synonyms


• Term
Edit

• More
Hooks


Taxonomy
Manager


Demo!