Taxonomy

Robert Castelo, Code Positive Ltd.

Classifying Animals

Fish Insect

Bird Mammal
 by Habitat

Water Land, Air

Land, Air Land

Fixed Vocabulary
Vocabulary: Terms:
•Habitat •Air
•Land
•Water

Terms are pre-defined

by site maintainers
Fixed Vocabulary
Vocabulary: Terms:
•Habitat •Air
•Land
-Tropical
-Polar
•Water
-Shallows
-Deep
Terms can have multiple levels
Terms are displayed as links at
bottom of content
User Entered Terms
• Those that belong to the Emperor
• Embalmed ones
• Those that are trained
• Suckling pigs
• Mermaids
• Fabulous ones
• Stray dogs
• Those included in the present classification
• Those that tremble as if they were mad
• Innumerable ones
• Those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush
• Others
• Those that have just broken a flower vase
• Those that from a long way off look like flies
From Borges fictional Chinese Encyclopaedia "Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge"
 Free Tagging
(or Folksonomy)

Users add tags (terms) to content as it

is being created or edited.

Autocomplete is used to suggest

existing terms, to try to create
common classification.
All terms are displayed together
Vocabularies can be used across
multiple content types
 Display Content
by Terms

Term links below node content

lead to pages displaying all content
tagged with that term
 Term title & description

Click on ‘Polar’ to see all

content tagged with that term.
 Parent term doesn’t display
content tagged with child terms.
 Image Credits
• by Puliarf

• by EDD07

• by Strange Ones

• Christina Spicuzza