Taxonomy

GSoC 2009 Project

Taxonomy Extension Gartheeban. G http://theebgar.net

What it is ? An extension to decouple categorization from object creation and management, and provide a human friendly, visually recognizable, flexible alternative to search indices of objects.

You would probably already have come across … Category, Section, User groups, Keywords, etc

Comprises of Taxonomy Library Taxonomy Component  Com_Content Integration  Plugins TaxonomyCloud Module

Taxonomy Library Exposes the complete set of features through JTaxonomy class When instantiated once, all necessary files, including JHTMLTaxonomy, get included and ready for action.

Serves through JTaxonomyTree JTaxonomyLeaf JTaxonomyMap

Taxonomy Component Central place to manage Taxonomy Extension

Taxonomy Component Add, edit and Delete Trees and Leaves And visualize Tree Maps and Leaf Maps

Operation

Interactions

Taxonomy Component - Frontend

Optionally, alias, tree display text, tree notes, leaf info and object count (including that of the children leaves) can be displayed

Com_content Integration  By adding a snippet of code to views/article/tmpl/default.php

 Content_MapTaxonomy Plugin to extract taxonomy fields from content submission form.  Content_Taxonomy Plugin to insert taxonomy links into content output.

Fields and text are generated by Taxonomy Library

Parsing and saving fields are also done by Taxonomy Library

Taxonomy Cloud Module  Leaves weighted by their significance (number of nodes mapped to them).  Ordered according to their weights, names, or randomly.  Links to the corresponding to the object listing page

What More?  Auto-complete text fields for free hierarchical leaves  Auto tagging support through Opencalais (http://www.opencalais.com) integration  Exhibit (http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/) integration  Faceted Search

More importantly pursuing other extensions to adopt taxonomy framework by demonstrating its capability

What can be expected by next month?

 Auto-complete text fields Unit tests  Support for /from more components

Features  Scalable and Extendable  Normalized Tables  Trees and Leaves as separate entities  Light weight options made available, and internally used in place where uniformity has to be maintained  Outputs are configurable

 Comprehensive and Powerful  Most of the operations can be done with library directly with little coding.  Instantiating JTaxonomy willl alone bring all the features.  Additional options are supported.  By default 4 hierarchies supported, and many structures can be possibly built.  Instant creation of tree, and tree-mapping for a given structure is available through JTaxonomy->instantBuild()

Links  Code : http://labs.joomla.org/svn/labs/playground/people/garthee/trunk/

 Demo : http://gsoc.theebgar.net

 Articles and Blogs :  Profile at GSoC Page : http://community.joomla.org/gsoc2009/gartheebanganneshapillai.html

 Authors person website : http://theebgar.net

THANKS TO Omar Ramos Luis Galárraga