[CODE4LIB] complex drupal taxonomy question

2012-07-11 Thread Laurie Allen
Hi, I'm working on a drupal site with a very complicated taxonomy. Backstory: A polisci professor and team of students designed this project first as a theoretcal exercise as part of a senior thesis double major in political science and computer science, and then as the project of a very devoted

Re: [CODE4LIB] complex drupal taxonomy question

2012-07-11 Thread Andrew Hankinson
Just taking a stab in the dark: -- set up a copy field in Solr. This basically takes the content from an existing field and creates a mirror of it. -- apply some extra string processing to your copy field so that it splits and tokenizes the content on the - (e.g., enemy of islam and haverford

Re: [CODE4LIB] complex drupal taxonomy question

2012-07-11 Thread Cary Gordon
The issue is that child terms (contexts) are not reusable, so the term, enemy of islam is actually going to be a different entry for each parent (keyword) if you use a parent/child relationship. You should probably use separate vocabularies for contexts and keywords, then a module that establish

Re: [CODE4LIB] complex drupal taxonomy question

2012-07-11 Thread Laurie Allen
Thanks very much, Cary. I'll check out that module and repost on drupal4lib. Laurie