David Lanier from Amarillo Texas attended camp in Colorado this year and presented on Taxonomy.

My notes are a little light from this session and I was at the back of the classroom - meaning the video isn't great. You'll probably want to wear headphones for the dialogue.

David managed the session like a meetup encouraging questions throughout.

David started with Concepts, and then looked at some Implementations, finally he looked at Alternatives.

Taxonomy is a system of classification, categories, tags, and naming. Taxonomy makes things easier to categorize.

The Terminology Of Taxonomy is helpful to define.

• taxonomy is the "system"
• vocabulary are "facets"
• terms are "categories or tags"
• tags are then applied to nodes

Drupal can make use of both Flat and Hierarchical structures, meaning that the structure can have terms that are on an equal level. Hierarchies allow for terms to have children.

The process of creating in taxonomy in Drupal follows, roughly, the following path:

1. Create a content type to associate your vocabulary with
2. Create a Taxonomy - Add a vocabulary
3. Assign it to a content type - (David used forums to demonstrate)
4. Add a term to the taxonomy

David recommended using the Taxonomy Menu. Like the title says, this module allows you to create menus from taxonomy.

David then demonstrated how you can use taxonomy term in views to generate lists of content.

Now, the videos: