[drupal-docs] Using taxonomies to tag the Drupal documentation, Was: Drupal in the Java world-

[Kieran Lal]

On May 31, 2005, at 7:17 AM, Mark Leicester wrote:

>  I find the mailing list archives[4] difficult to mine
> for information. It struck me that applying folksonomy to the mailing
> list was a low cost, low energy, collaborative way of filing
> information stored there. At the same time it made sense to let people
> tag the rest of the content in the site too. To get the job done
> quickly I used autowitch's awTags[5] modules. I'm watching the free
> tagging implementation develop with interest; coupled with a  
> sprinkling
> of Ajax I'm sure it'll be a killer.
>
> Ah yes, while I'm at it, a realisation I've had re. folksonomy is that
> the keywords people choose to tag content with are likely the same
> keywords they will type into Google. I've been monitoring Google
> referrals, and then tagging content according to what people have
> entered. For example, if I notice someone has arrived at our site via
> the search term "cocoon databases", I will run off and tag all content
> related to databases (found via internal search perhaps) with the word
> "databases". The awTags module gives me a page titled "databases |
> Planet Cocoon", filled with content that mentions databases. A nice  
> way
> to indirectly give people what they want, and it seems to be good for
> Google ranking...
>

I found this very interesting.   We have been waiting to do this for  
while we gets some other projects off the ground.  But it would make  
sense to me to have someone in charge of research for the  
documentation team.  We need someone to do audience research, link  
research, search terms research, referral research.  If it all ends  
up allowing us to better tag our content so be it.  Taxonomy appears  
to be one of the deciding factors why people choose Drupal and yet we  
don't take advantage of it enough internally.

Let's not divert existing resources, but if there is someone lurking  
who would be will to commit to do research or taxonomies/folksonomies  
please say 'Aye!'.

Cheers,
Kieran

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