Eol Drupal Dman Presentation
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- Dan Morrison has been a web developer since 1996 working with various languages and content management systems. - He has been a Drupal contributor for several years and his first experience with Drupal was developing a taxonomy for a database of pests and diseases. - His existing Drupal contributions include modules for advanced taxonomy term editing, importing and exporting taxonomies in different formats, and relating Drupal objects using RDF. - He discusses ideas for improving taxonomy formats and standards, as well as developing a central taxonomy server that projects can draw from.
Eol Drupal Dman Presentation
- 1. Taxonomy Advances in Drupal Dan (dman) Morrison Existing projects and contributions Historical relevant research Current ideas
- 2. Personal Background Web Developer from 1996 Largely Perl & PHP sites University Webmaster Then lots of ASP/JScript Several handmade CMSs, many languages Mostly corporate and Govt Clients Drupal Contributor, several years First taste of Drupal was a taxonomical database of known pests and diseases for NZ biosecurity
- 3. Interests/Strengths HTTP Transactions, Client-Server issues Javascript, some AJAX Semantic web (microformats, RDF, Standards) Cross Platform / Browser issues (!) XML/XSL Site/server admin Tutoring, documentation Info management/architecture
- 4. Weaknesses :-) High-level SQL, Non-MySQL databases Security, Encryption Online Communities Scalability .NET, Java, Ruby Real network admin, routers, farms etc
- 5. Existing Contributions edit_term.module For advanced, integrated, editing and management of the existing Drupal taxonomy terms taxonomy_xml.module For a standardized import/export schema of Drupal taxonomy vocabularies relationship.module An attempt at bringing RDF and a consistant schema to all Drupal objects and data
- 7. Edit_term edit page addition
- 8. Taxonomy_xml (import/export) Import/Export of Drupal Taxonomies Supports CSV, RDF, and a custom XML Used primarily for transferring data between similar sites Extended to enable different sites to use the same vocabularies/taxonomies ... with a view to linking to canonic taxonomy servers or repositories
- 9. Taxonomy Formats I totally failed to find any formal syntax ...that was used by more than one or two sources But I did find a dozen varied attempts at 'standards' (docs and refs enc. With the module) SKOS, ISO2788, wordnet/RDF etc Instead, I'm attempting to be āliberal in what we acceptā by allowing a dozen synonyms. Many older sources had something that could be translated to CSV triples, with some Excel or Perl-munging
- 10. taxonomy_xml synonyms ...incomplete
- 11. CSV
- 12. RDF
- 13. taxomomy_rdf UI
- 14. Imported Vocabs
- 15. Projections A central taxonomy server which lists common, re-used terms from a restricted vocabulary. Accessed via web service or similar Client projects can draw down as much or as little of the taxonomy as needed, and on request. A GUID format as an extension to taxonomy terms so every database shard has the same point of reference