By brainshrub on

I'm working on a political blog, and I'm stumped on how to organize the Taxonomy.

Does anyone know of a good Taxonomy for a political blog that I can look to for guidance?

Thanks in advance.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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SavoryMedia commented

What I would do is create one taxonomy for your blog posts (I'm assuming you're using blog posts as your main content type) and then either create a heirarchial list of terms (which will be your blog categories) under that main taxonomy...or use freetagging to create terms/categories on the fly.

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brainshrub commented

I upgraded to Drupal v4.7 last week and everything has gone very smoothly.

The one thing that is over my head is the "free tagging". I understood a tree-like hierarchal taxonomy, but if you make a "free" tag like "Hong Kong" how does Drupal know to put it under "China"?

If this would take too long to explain, just link to an explanation somewhere. I would be very grateful.

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SavoryMedia commented

The one thing that is over my head is the "free tagging". I understood a tree-like hierarchal taxonomy, but if you make a "free" tag like "Hong Kong" how does Drupal know to put it under "China"?

Nope. Drupal is definitely not smart enough to make associations like that. Freetagging works best for non-hierarcal category groups like tagclouds (google "tag clouds tagclouds" without the quotes for a better understanding of that).

That said, you can always create hierarcal term trees under a single vocabulary, which might be better for your blog.

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brainshrub commented

For example, can I give one node the tags "Hong Kong" and "China"?

If I create a hierarchal term tree, can I still have a tag cloud?

If not, can I create a tag cloud with Technorati Tags?

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brainshrub commented

can one node have more than one tag? Yes. They are comma-separated.

You can create a tree AND have free tagging. It's not an either-or situation. Very cool.

:)

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venkat-rk commented

drupal political site: www.ofbyandfor.org

You can find plenty more in the showcase section in the handbooks on drupal.org and also in the drupal forum for announcing new sites. They may not all use taxonomy, but quite a few will.