SoC geeklog2 taxonomy tagging plugin
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Incentive
Almost all content needs a way to organize content. There are a number of ways to do this but the two most basic forms are:
- Taxonomies - a simple example of a taxonomy are the "topics" implemented in the 1.x branch of Geeklog. Taxonomies are a managed set of terms commonly used for searching and navigation. These terms are often hierarchical (think tree structures).
- Tagging - allows for descriptive words or short phrases to be assigned to content. Unlike taxonomies, tags aren't hierarchical and they are often more flexible than taxonomies.
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Objective
- Implement a Geeklog 2 plugin that provides both a taxonomy and a tagging implementation.
- Create the SOAP API for interacting with the plugin. Geeklog 2 already has basic support for implementing web services so this should be quite easy.
- Allow tags to be added to tag libraries. The idea is that not all plugins in Geeklog may want to mix their tags in with other plugins.
- Build a comprehensive and flexible search tree that will allow the traversal of related tags. For example if I looked for a tag related to "rifles" it may give me the tags "Remington 700", "Weatherby', etc.
- Build the UI widgets that will allow plugins to integrate both taxonomies and tagging into them. This would include simple AJAX support using the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library).
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Level of Difficulty
Medium
Much of the heaving lifting here is non-visual so if you love coding but maybe aren't that great with User Interfaces, CSS, etc then this would be a great alternative.
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