Posted by gsennema on May 9, 2008 at 2:48pm
hi
have any libraries created a site wide taxonomy that they are particularly proud of (or not...) that they would be willing to share?
greg
Library web site taxonomy
Group organizers
Group categories
Resources
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- Service providers (7)
- Snippets (3)
- Themes (6)
Comments
Not yet, but in the works . . .
Well, here at FSU we are working on pretty complex set of taxonomies and cck types, but nothing has been finalized yet.
If I get a chance, though, I will post what we are working on so far.
I know I would love to hear what others have done - especially as related to academic or research libraries.
JonDBlackburn
Example Taxonomies
So . . . still working on something a little-more "fleshed out", but here's a couple examples that I think will be key to our taxonomy:
Library (Being able to sort content by the "library" it is related to will be key ... especially when building "library-specific" landing pages)
User Group (for us, as an academic library, this would be "faculty", "grad", "undergrad", "distance learner" etc., but could be adapted to fit any library)
Library Department (more for internal than external use, but still helps to group services and especially staff contact info)
Subject/Academic Dept (this will be probably by academic dept/program for us, because of our "outreach" librarian assignments, but could be by "subject keyword" - most likely we will also have a "freetagging" subject keyword taxonomy as well, but that's yet to be decided)
(By Course taxonomy is also being considered but also for the more distant future).
Publication Type (are you searching for journal articles, books, newspapers, etc. - to organize licensed databases and other online resources, but also possibly research guides, etc.) - Coming up w/ the specific terms for this is going to be the hardest, and we have a number of strategies being discussed (including drupal machine tagging). Will say more as things progress.
Of course, one or two of the above may actually end up being "content types" rather than taxonomies, but we will use nodereference w/ views so that they function much like taxonomies (or NAT, if we want).
Still have several internal "workshops" and user research exercises planned for Summer that could inform these plans, but just wanted to share where we are at the moment.
JonDBlackburn
This will Huge Library
This is what i want to see but since a years ago I found something interesting and i put on my website too.
It depends
Well, I would say it depends on what you're tagging. The only thing we're tagging is blog posts.
Navigation-by-taxonomy is really rare for our users, so even though we do tag our posts, we're wondering if it's really worth it =)
Now, tagging bibliographic items...! That's a whole different ballgame! =)
What do you want to tag?
Using Taxonomy to Drive Browsing
Not sure if I'm proud of it ;-) but taxonomy is a key component of our navigation.
This has become even more important since we were not able to integrate google mini (our prior search engine) into our new Drupal site (although we may still do that at some future point). I am not thrilled with Drupal search out of the box, honestly, so effective browsing is important. Here is our main browse topics page:
http://nationalserviceresources.org/topics/service-activities
This was a really rush project - we only had about six weeks to migrate our entire website into Drupal.
Key lessons learned:
1) I did not realize until too late that I could not designate a term from one category as "related" to a term in a different category. If I had known that, I might have structured the whole thing differently.
2) I thought it was important to me to use a hierarchical structure, but in retrospect, I'm thinking I could have made the whole thing flat and worked more with "related" terms and other organizational tools to make sense of the taxonomy.
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