Last updated January 17, 2012. Created by firepug on June 7, 2002.
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Taxonomy, a powerful core module, gives your sites use of the organizational keywords known in other systems as categories, tags, or metadata. In Drupal, these terms are gathered within "vocabularies." The Taxonomy module allows you to create, manage and apply those vocabularies.
New under Drupal 7 is the ability to add taxonomy fields to vocabularies and terms.
Taxonomy is the practice of classifying content. It will come in handy for everything from menu and navigation schemes to view and display options.
Many contributed modules rely on Taxonomy--generating, for example, menus based on existing tags.