[drupal-support] dealing with a large vocabulary

[Ron Mahon]

If you already know the name the search function should find it.
Taxonomy shines when you know the type, family etc. but not the name of what
it was indexed as.
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From: Anisa [mailto:mystavash at animecards.org] 
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 9:22 AM
To: drupal-support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [drupal-support] dealing with a large vocabulary


Hm.  No.  I don't really plan on giving them those kinds of distinctions,
because once you get started, there is no end.

I was thinking maybe allowing multiple parents and creating a seperate vocab
for really popular series....  Just so that people don't have to scroll all
the way to S for Sailor Moon, for example.

I am really hoping it will be a helpful cross reference for most of the
site.  :)

Thank you for the help!

Anisa.

Ron Mahon wrote:


I believe it has to be a separate sub section as they all belong to the same

group. Dividing them will come back to haunt you. Also don't over look the

possibility (power of) that one card maybe cross listed in more than one

group. Look again to the examples in the taxonomy help section.



I haven't tried the search function on tax terms, but with a list that big I

would hope it would work.



Do these cards have other qualities other than name that you could group

then in to.



I.e. if I am looking for a warrior do I care it it's male of female. Even if

I do it's still a sub section of warrior.



Regards

Ron









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-----Original Message-----

From: Anisa [mailto:mystavash at animecards.org] 

Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 11:46 AM

To: drupal-support at drupal.org

Subject: Re: [drupal-support] dealing with a large vocabulary



The document team is busy.  ;)  Go bug the development team.



The list I am thinking of is really really big.  Arranged alphabetically, it

could get anywhere from 10 -  30 terms a letter. 



If I were to stack them like cards, I would probably divide them like I do

ACO, in groups of 3 letters, although some letters have more series than

others.  Or by letters.



Would each pile of cards be a seperate *vocabulary* or a seperate subsection

IN a vocabulary?



Anisa.





Ron Mahon wrote:



  

Anisa

I think you need to model how you would look them up if they were 

physical cards in your hand.

How many piles would you make? How would you name them?



Then Look at how I did it at http://inmrc.com Look at Site Navigation 

and at the site map.

For a large list You need to not have it expand automatically.



It would be really terrific if I could figure out how to make the term 

display instead of the taxonomy link.



I believe it can be done! Maybe a job for the Document team.



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-----Original Message-----

From: Anisa [mailto:mystavash at animecards.org]

Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:57 AM

To: drupal-support at drupal.org

Subject: [drupal-support] dealing with a large vocabulary



I am looking for advice.



I am planning to make a vocabulary of Anime Series.  (ah, the rare girl 

otaku ;).  I haven't thought it all through, but I believe making the 

vocabulary has lots of benefits in terms of cross referencing 

everything on the site.



Obviously, there are thousands of series, though.  Technically, I will 

limit them to things that have to do with the site, which cuts it down

    

some.

  

I initially split it up into # - B, C - E, etc, but ran into problems 

with the cvs weblinks module, since it would only let you choose one 

vocabulary for navigation, and I wanted it to spit out links for each 

series (it makes sense for what I was trying to do, promise).



So then, I thought, okay, maybe it would be better to make it all one 

big list.  But as I make it, I lose confidence.  Is this how people 

deal with large vocabularies in Drupal?  I don't know that I want my 

users to have to select from such a big list, but six little lists looked

    

ugly too.

  

Any advice appreciated.



Anisa.





 



    





  

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