Forum OpenACS Development: Response to OACS content repository services

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Posted by Lee Denison on

Dave,

Speaking of a new interface to categorisation, the OACS seems to be powerful in its ability to categorise content, but not so powerful when it comes to using that structured information. Some uses for categorisation that I can think of are:

  • Restricting searches by category.
  • Mapping a category tree to part of the URL space; this would need to be supported by category navigation widgets or something.
  • Generating a site index by category; if multiple category trees exist then content could be index by primary category then secondary categories within that.
  • etc...

Indeed it might be nice to be able to associate alternate names for a category with it, so that if you were looking to show Yahoo! style search results with matching categories displayed, you could also match alternate names for a category.

Either way I was thinking it might be good to be able, in a new interface, to associate some meta-information with a category tree indicating the intended uses of that category tree.

Thoughts?