oops

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Cary Gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Also excerpted from Code4lib:
>
> The issue is that child terms (contexts) are not reusable, so the
> term, "enemy of islam" is actually going to be a different entry for
> each parent (keyword) if you use a parent/child relationship.
>
> You should probably use separate vocabularies for contexts and
> keywords, then a module that establish term relationships, like
> http://drupal.org/project/term_relations/
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Laurie Allen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Reposted from Code4lib
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> I'm working on a drupal site with a very complicated taxonomy.
>> Backstory: A polisci professor and team of students designed this
>> project first as a theoretcal exercise as part of a senior thesis
>> double major in political science and computer science, and then as
>> the project of a very devoted and smart student using drupal. It's
>> both amazingly cool and  technically complex. At this point, we are
>> trying to help rein it in to the library servers and help support it
>> so that new crops of students can maintain it without needing to be CS
>> majors, and also to help them address a few issues and problems that
>> have been discovered over the past year or so. My colleague and I are
>> totally new to Drupal, and to this database. While he's working on the
>> solr indexing, I'm trying to help figure out the taxonomy issue.
>>
>> See here: http://gtrp.haverford.edu/aqsi/aqsi/statements/mustafa-abu-al-yazids-interview-al-jazeera
>> Basically, the site indexes the public statements of al-qaeda. Each
>> statements is assigned a bunch of terms by students who have studied
>> jihad and al-qaeda.
>>
>> Each term is composed of two parts.
>> First part: a keyword from a controlled list of keywords - there are
>> many of these and they include places, people, theories, and other
>> things. So, "Afghanistan", "Barack Obama", and "media" are all
>> keywords.
>> Second part: a context from a much smaller (around 20) collection of
>> contexts, including I guess how the keyword figures in this statement.
>> Example include "area of jihad, enemy of islam, religious relations"
>> and others.
>>
>> So, the full term would be "media - enemy of islam" for example. And
>> each record includes a large number of these.
>>
>> Going forward, we'd ideally like to allow users of the site to find
>> all three of the following:
>> 1. Records that contain a particular two part term. (easy - that's
>> what taxonomy is for)
>> 2. A list of terms that begin with the first part so that they can
>> select the modifier for it (also easy, if we make the second term a
>> subterm or child of the first, this will work fine)
>> 3. A list of terms that have the second part as a qualifier. So, for
>> example, show me all terms in which anything is called an "enemy of
>> islam" and then let me choose which keyword is referred to as an enemy
>> of jihad and show me that record.
>>
>> It's that third one that we can't figure out. The only way we can
>> think to accomplish this is to basically duplicate each entry so that
>> we'd say "Haverford - enemy of islam" and "enemy of islam - Haverford"
>> I think that will work, but since there are many statements, and each
>> statement has many terms, this solution doesn't seem ideal. Do any of
>> you have ideas?
>>
>> Thanks very much.
>> Laurie Allen
>> --
>> Coordinator for Digital Scholarship and Services
>> Haverford College Library
>> 370 Lancaster Ave
>> Haverford, PA 19041
>> 610-896-4226
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> drupal4lib mailing list
>> questions/help: [log in to unmask]
>> http://listserv.uic.edu/archives/drupal4lib.html
>
>
>
> --
> Cary Gordon
> The Cherry Hill Company
> http://chillco.com



-- 
Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
http://chillco.com