Dealing with really large taxonomies and term relations to handle term metadata

Been a while since I browsed around the taxonomy group and thought it a good time to write a bit about what has come of the Taxonomy Sprint in Chicago last year re: large taxonomies and term relations / term metadata with respect to the Encyclopedia of Life. We soft launched LifeDesks (http://www.lifedesks.org) whereby anyone may create their own. To get a sense for what's transpired and how we deal with taxonomy, check out a recent YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QHSvYrP0O4. We make string use of jsTree: www.jstree.com and the author is pleased to hear that Drupalers are interested in it.

Cheers,

David Shorthouse
LifeDesk Lead