[development] Taxonomy labeling changes

mark burdett mfburdett at gmail.com
Wed Nov 14 21:03:43 UTC 2007


The taxonomy "help" text is so sublimely complex.  It throws around
all of the terms that site admins need to know about (taxonomy,
vocabulary, term, category, etc.) without clearly explaining how
they're used in drupal, plus lots of bonus words like thesauri and
descriptors.

--mark

http://api.drupal.org/api/function/taxonomy_help/6

The taxonomy module is one of the most popular features because users
often want to create categories to organize content by type. A simple
example would be organizing a list of music reviews by musical genre.

Taxonomy is the study of classification. The taxonomy module allows
you to define vocabularies (sets of categories) which are used to
classify content. The module supports hierarchical classification and
association between terms, allowing for truly flexible information
retrieval and classification. The taxonomy module allows multiple
lists of categories for classification (controlled vocabularies) and
offers the possibility of creating thesauri (controlled vocabularies
that indicate the relationship of terms) and taxonomies (controlled
vocabularies where relationships are indicated hierarchically). To
view and manage the terms of each vocabulary, click on the associated
<em>list terms</em> link. To delete a vocabulary and all its terms,
choose <em>edit vocabulary.</em>

A controlled vocabulary is a set of terms to use for describing
content (known as descriptors in indexing lingo). Drupal allows you to
describe each piece of content (blog, story, etc.) using one or many
of these terms. For simple implementations, you might create a set of
categories without subcategories, similar to Slashdot's sections. For
more complex implementations, you might create a hierarchical list of
categories.

For more information please read the configuration and customization
handbook <a href="@taxonomy">Taxonomy page</a>.
array('@taxonomy' => 'http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/taxonomy/')

The taxonomy module allows content to be classified into categories
and subcategories, or vocabularies and terms. Terms may be organized
in controlled vocabularies (vocabularies with multiple lists of
categories), in thesauri (controlled vocabularies that indicate the
relationship of terms), in taxonomies (controlled vocabularies where
relationships are indicated hierarchically), or in free vocabularies
(vocabularies where tags are defined during content creation). To view
and manage the terms of each vocabulary, click on the associated
<em>list terms</em> link. To delete a vocabulary and all its terms,
choose "edit vocabulary".

When you create a controlled vocabulary you are creating a set of
terms to use for describing content (known as descriptors in indexing
lingo). Drupal allows you to describe each piece of content (blog,
story, etc.) using one or many of these terms. For simple
implementations, you might create a set of categories without
subcategories. For more complex implementations, you might create a
hierarchical list of categories.


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