Case studies referencing projects via a nodereference provides a nice way of contextualizing how a module is used. While improved tagging (and active maintenance of the tagging structure) would also be helpful, seeing links to case studies that incorporate a particular module from the project page would be very useful. Of course, this list would be very long on project pages for views and cck, but that can be managed. An aside here: the mention of e-learning as a category points at both a shortcoming of the tagging system, and (IMO) a misunderstanding of e-learning. Many modules on d.o have applications within online learning, even if it's not immediately obvious -- and the purpose of the categorization system should be to extend what is immediately obvious. While modules like quiz and gradebook have a specific elearning component, they are the exception. Pathauto and token are pretty critical for online learning sites, for exactly the same reason they are useful outside of a learning context. Cheers, Bill Nathaniel Catchpole wrote:
Tagging case studies - yes that makes sense - so then the hard node reference to the actual project (as opposed to a mention) means you could have a view of case studies showing all the modules used with direct links, browsable by tag.
So in the right sidebar of the download and extend page, you still have a list like:
Media Government Technology
Upon clicking media, you'd see: - Warner Bros. | Views, CCK, Embedded Media Field | some other tags | date posted (or whatever) Some Record label | Audio, Panels Photo gallery site building howto | imagefield, imagecache, lightbox
etc. etc.
The advantage there is you get lists of modules which are actually used / documented, rather than lists of modules who's authors could be bothered to tag them.
And yeah there's definitely no harm in having the vocabulary and trying it out for a while, I was just very fond of the showcase idea and didn't want it to get lost ;)
Nat
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Gábor Hojtsy <gabor@hojtsy.hu> wrote:
Then instead of referencing the nodes from the case studies attaching taxonomy terms to the references, we can tag the case studies themselves, and just have taxonomy lists of case studies on those links, can't we? I mean if you'd use this data from actual case studies, then why not show the modules in context, where the usage is actually described?
Note: IMHO we can remove the types of sites vocabulary always, if we find it is not working well.
Gábor
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Nathaniel Catchpole <catch56@googlemail.com> wrote:
In the redesign discussions, we'd discussed having nodereferences between case studies, site recipes and projects for this purpose rather than
tags.
That way, people documenting how particular types of sites are built
could
show which modules they used - as opposed to project owners saying 'I
think
this might be useful for'. You could then show showcases and site recipes next to modules, and modules next to showcases and site recipes in a structured way (and with some data munging, get aggregate data if
needed).
Was this discussed as an option?
Nat
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