At 1:15 AM -0800 11/10/06, Neil Drumm wrote:
I would currently consider any use of the words node, taxonomy, and term in UI text to be bugs. These are post/content, categories, and category.
I feel that is not true. Category is but one expression of taxonomy. Taxonomy is far more complex and powerful than a simple category/tagging system and calling it such is good. Talk to any information professional, such as librarians, and they will tell you that taxonomy is an important term/concept and drupal gets much credit for using that term instead of dumbing it down as "categories"
I've had more than one opportunity to develop on drupal because the system is called "taxonomy" and therefor implies much more complex possibilities than if it was called tags or categories.
I've been looking at ontologies recently and think that taxonomy isnt representative enough! taxonomies are classes of things. I recommend that anyone considering this looks at Wikipedia's page on ontologies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_%28computer_science%29 * Individuals: the basic or "ground level" objects * Classes: sets, collections, or types of objects[1] * Attributes: properties, features, characteristics, or parameters that objects can have and share * Relations: ways that objects can be related to one another Now basically we have Individuals which are Drupal Nodes. Classes are Drupal Taxonomy terms Attributes are Flexinode fields, or metadata like "author" or CCK fields, and Relations is the one thing which is missing! If anyone (in the UK) is interested in implementing relations I'd consider paying for it :-) Alex