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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 Politics Economics Sports Business Finance Government Interior Policy 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
 Display / Manage Form fields Browse List / Search Navigation Recommendations Content 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!