Drupal and the Encyclopedia of Life - True Taxonomy

The "Encyclopedia of Life" is a fascinating project http://eol.org/ investing big money and brainpower into Drupal.
It is (will be) a catalog of every single organism on Earth - something like 3-7 Million 'Taxons'.

They are distributing branches of this global tree to registered scientists as their own Drupal subsite, each maintaining and sharing a 'clade' of the web of life.

SLIDES HERE

Drupal taxonomy simply wasn't up to it (although it's a good start), so I've been helping them make this happen. Biologists have a different understanding of the word 'taxonomy' than we do. And 'synonym' for that matter also!

I'll present on the "Code Sprint" we attended in Chicago in September, and what I see as the way forward for taxonomy servers, shared, restricted vocabularies, and assorted import/export issues with huge regular datasets.
It may include:
- Re-use of prior art, importing vocabularies (my own taxonomy_xml)
- Tying together terms as nodes and nodes as terms
- Using the D6 'batch' api (the progress ticker) for your own processes
- Core improvements to term handling (taxonomy_term_load)
- More on distribution profiles and automation of content types etc?

http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_xml

Link 1 below - my slides. A little dry without my handwaving.
Link 2 below - the Razorfish video. No narration needed!

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Speaker: dman

As dman@drupal.org I've been doing lots Drupally, including a few projects with Signify, and then a few more with Sparks Interactive, including the Drupalization of Sorted.org.nz.

I'm based in Wellington as a mostly-independant Web Guy, building things like The Vintage Aviator (recently spotlighted on Drupal.org front page)

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