taxonomy

What's a learning curve and why is steep not hard?

What exactly is a learning curve? And why is it wrong to use the term "steep learning curve" for something which has high entry barriers and takes quite some time to get into? As to the why-ness of this question: The terms are used often and inconsistently on Stack Overflow I myself have been confused by it Mostly the newbies are co...

MySQL code fails to display category name (WordPress database)

Why does this code fail to display the category name "Apples" using the current WordPress taxonomy system? The Category names are stored in the $wpdb->terms table (wp_terms). <?php $ra_category_id = 3; $ra_category = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT name FROM $wpdb->terms WHERE term_id = '3'"); $ra_category_name = $ra_category->name; ?...

Gadzooks! Architectures abound! Looking for an embedded processor/controller taxonomy

I am looking for a taxonomy of embedded processors. Which processors belong to which families? Who decends from whom? Does anyone here know of a simple article that describes it? ...

Spatial mapping of keyword/tags

I'm trying to understand the stategy or idea's for building spacial maps of related/common keywords or tags. Using SO as an example; if you go to http://stackoverflow.com/tags and type in "python" you will get all tags that have that word in it, but no tags that might be closely related ( WSGI, Google's App Engine, flying, etc ). In li...

Drupal: how to change taxonomy header on page with items?

I have a menu item like http://localhost/drupal/?q=category/articles/php It's supposed to output all stories about PHP, But in resulting page header (with term name (PHP) ) doesn't look very well. How can I remove header or change its CSS style? ...

Free Topical Taxonomy (Classification System) for Commerical Use

I am looking for a free taxonomy that is totally free. In my research, Dewey has legal problem. Library of Congress Classification is copyrighted except in the USA. DMOZ requires update from users. Please correct me if I am wrong. So, is there any totally free taxonomy for commerical use? What I am looking for is something like a Googl...

SEO for product known by different names

If you're selling widgets, we all know that having "Bob's Widgets" in the title and the H1 gives you a better ranking in Google when people search for "widgets". But what if, as someone explained to me the other day, their product is known by different names in different parts of the world? In the US, it's called a Widget. In Canada, i...

Auto Categorization of Content

Hi all I'm developing a script that extracts the messages from the message archive of a particular meetup.com group of which I'm a member - http://www.meetup.com/opencoffee/messages/archive/ The idea is to dynamically add these to a wordpress site and allow people to search messages, auto tag messages etc. The issue I have is how best...

How can I present and organize complex taxonomy and groupings?

Hi, this is a more generic question: I am trying to find a way to classify a segment of data that have overlapping or sometimes multiple "broad categories." I try to use "tags" as a way to allow some granularity, but I don't have a way to convey the more "top level" categories for people to browse. For example, one of the vendors I am...

Which tools do you use to analyze text?

I'm in need of some inspiration. For a hobby project I am playing with content analysis. I am basically trying to analyze input to match it to a topic map. For example: "The way on Iraq" > History, Middle East "Halloumni" > Food, Middle East "BMW" > Germany, Cars "Obama" > USA "Impala" > USA, Cars "The Berlin Wall" > History, Germany ...

Drupal 6: Taxonomy splot up in managed fields?

So you have two taxonomies, namely: "Business Type" and "Location" This is assigned to a node called BUSINESS. In effect, when the user creates a BUSINESS node, her has to choose for example, location "New York" and type "Information Services". My problem is when: a) Capturing the taxonomy, and b) Displaying the taxonomy I want the two...

Query multiple custom taxonomy terms in Wordpress 2.8?

I created a custom taxonomy named 'technologies' but cannot query multiple terms like I can with categories or tags. These querys DO work: query_posts('tag=goldfish,airplanes'); query_posts('technologies=php'); However, neither of the following work correctly: query_posts('technologies=php,sql'); query_posts('technologies=php&tech...

Drupal 6: Views: Listing taxonomy terms with tagged nodes underneath.

I need to create a view that lists out taxonomy terms and then list the top 3 recent(sort by node:date updated) nodes with that tag example out put: Article Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 Podcast Podcast 1 Podcast 2 Podcast 3 . . . I created a view of type "Term" and I can get the view to output all of the terms. However, I don...

Java API for processing of taxonomies

Looking for API that helps me with processing of taxonomies. It should be possible to work with taxonomy in object model (loading from xml file), list categories, traverse tree of categories (if it's tree taxonomy), getting name and value for category, etc. Read only mode is sufficient. Google hasn't helped a lot :( Usage can be as foll...

How do you categorize your languages and technologies on resumes or promotion materials?

I have them categorized like this: TECHNOLOGIES Scripting: Ruby, PHP, ColdFusion, Perl, Javascript/AJAX Compiled: ActionScript3, C, C++, Objective C, Java, J2ME, Assembly Frameworks: Ruby On Rails, Flex, Flash, Smarty. Wordpress, Joomla, Thematic API’s: Facebook, Twi...

Help with hooks and taxonomies: Modifying the posts query in wordpress?

in wordpress you can do the following: http://example.com/tag/jazz,blues/ (returns tags page with posts tagged with jazz OR blues) http://example.com/tag/jazz+blues/ (returns tags page with posts tagged with jazz AND blues) I want to be able to do the same thing with other taxonomies other than the "tag" taxonomy. I've created a "mus...

DRUPAL probl [tid] field : in View how to link Taxonomy term to MY view (and not to taxonomy/term)

SUMMARY : I have a view where I need to replace the term link "taxonomy/term" by my view link, because the view uses arguments to find content with terms how can I put in link argument the term which is display : [term_name1] > link "display_view/term_name1", [term_name2] > link "display_view/term_name2" I used [tid] field to put arg...

Drupal Node Hierarchy

Hiya, I'm having a problem working out how drupal structures content. I have a content type called "Artists" and then i have "Songs" i want my URL's to be: www.foo.com/{artist generated url}/{song generated url} i.e. www.foo.com/led-zeppelin/stairway-to-heaven/ {artist generated url} -> is created automatically by pathauto from ...

Placing one vocabularly underneath another?

I've got the following two vocabularies: Categories, with items: Big Medium Small Make, with items: Samsung Whirlpool KIC I've then made a product content type, where these two categories are required. My problem comes in where I want a menu (preferably using taxonomy menu and dhtml menu) so I can obtain the following menu: B...

grouping nodes in drupal with taxonomy

I have a problem that i cant seem to get my head around. What i need to do is to create lists in drupal, where you can group nodes together depending on what category they belong to, and also have that category as a header. ex: - January (category, header) -- week 1 (category, header) --- 1. bananas (node) --- 2. apples (node) --- 3....