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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