Hello all,
I am working on an Autism Community and just starting to plan content.
(Worked with Oracle Portal a few years but new to Drupal).
I need to build some vocabularies for content classificaiton.
Since Autism (medical condition classification) can get little detailed, lots terms that have synomoms and related terms.
Also there are lots of issues with education, community, diagnostic-terms that could be treated through classification maybe.
What I am trying to figure out is whether it is better to use categories or tags for initial content build-out?
For static nodes/pages?
- Category vocabularies may be best
- Or predefined tag vocabularies
For user-generated nodes/story/etc
- Categores may not be good?
- Free Tagging is best maybe (and predefined tag vocabularies is useful here)
The reason I'm not sure is from end-user viewpoint...
- Categories do not appear in a tag cloud.
- Listings of a tag-term does not include category-term (even if same name or synomom or related)
- Listings of a category-term does not include content-term (even if same name or synomom or related)
Maybe categories should be for static-content and more general while tags (predefined or freetagging) should be more user-orientated.
Any advice or comments appreciated.
N-o-e-l
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With Drupal the taxonomy
With Drupal the taxonomy module handles both fixed term vocabularies and tagged vocabularies.
Fixed term vocabularies can only be changed by someone with correct permissions. They are my preference when I want a fixed set of terms, say I want them to select a color but only from a predefined set.
Tagged vocabularies are useful when you want to give the people adding content the ability to categorize the content as they see. Using color as an example again, I might have a vocabulary for color that is free tagging and allow the user to tag with whatever color they want.
As for
This makes me think you are not using the taxonomy module and I am not sure what you mean by tag-term, category-term or content-term. Terms are applied to content and terms belong to a vocabulary which can be fixed or free tagging.
free-tagging, tagadelic, fixed term tagging....
Thanks nevets.
Yes, I have Taxonomy module.
I looked at my categories again and realised that I am getting confused between Categories and a "free-tagging" category called Tags.
I have other non-free-tagging categories called "Age" and "County".
I was also having doubts when ...
First I started adding fixed term vocabulary to this "Tags" category.
Only "Tags" category is parsed by Tagadelic module - so its good.
But since I was adding fixed-terms to "Tags" and allowing free-tagging to "Tags" I wondered if this made sense....
I think I need to think about this a little more...
thanks,
N-o-e-l