1. Vincent Smith & Simon Rycroft Taxonomy & Scratchpads

2. Biological taxonomy Findability, relationships (ontology) & tagging Scale Metadata

3. Scratchpads http://scratchpads.eu/ Multi-host Drupal (5) site Drupal customized for taxonomists Communities apply for a site 65+ sites, 750+ users, 130k nodes Taxonomy central to many features

4. Import / Export Excel Template (CSV file)& uBio (XML feed) http://www.ubio.org/webservices/classificationbank/ search.php?classification=sp2000&node=Pediculus (Our) Taxonomy Import http://svn.scratchpads.eu/viewvc/trunk/sites/all/modules/taxonomy_import/

5. Management Taxonomy Manager & Taxonomy Core http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_manager Principle good, but no one uses it Confusing and slow (HCI issues) Major cross browser issues (Firefox) Requires a number of fixes… Flexible metadata on terms (core) Treat synonyms as full terms (core) Link nodes as term attributes (e.g. biblio) Improve manager HCI (drag-and-drop)

6. Search & Browse Navigation for finding tagged content TinyTax Automatically creates a mini-menu (block) of a vocabulary that is configurable for default term Intuitive Small footprint Integrates with a terms page TaxTab http://drupal.org/project/tinytax Augments default search with a tab for terms searches (includes term autocomplete) http://svn.scratchpads.eu/viewvc/t runk/sites/all/modules/taxtab/

7. Quick & intuitive Two step submission Fast (but could be quicker) Encourages tagging Autotagging Automated tagging of content Untagged node Use or ignore discovered tags (drag & drop or add) http://drupal.org/project/autotag

8. Mega-Vocabularies Sites with a million plus terms Current Taxonomy Problems e.g. http://catlife.myspecies.info (2 million+ terms) Taxonomy LeftandRight module Implements nested sets Over rides 3 taxonomy core functions - taxonomy_get_tree - taxonomy_overview_terms - taxonomy_select_nodes PHP requires too much memory for large hierarchies Very slow, especially above 50k terms Some sites with 300k terms (unusable) 1.8 million known species (6-80M est.) Very fast (in use with 2 million terms) Solves insertion problem with decimals Possible Solution http://drupal.org/project/leftandright

9. Sprint Expectations What we are looking to achieve Import and export of terms (TCS-XML?) from a repository Improved & flexible term metadata Handle synonyms as full terms Link nodes as attributes of terms Term and metadata management Permissions on terms (low priority?)

10. Questions?

12. Search & Browse 2 Split Layout TreeMaps e.g. http://scratchpads.eu/progress Intuitive Small footprint Integrates with a terms page Potentially integrates multi-site content