By calmmarcus on

Hi, please could you tell me how well suited Drupal is to the following project:

I would like to create a web site to organise & present my academic research by categorising the resources that I find.

These resources will include files, web links and bibliographic references with accompanying descriptions.

A crude tree-like directory of resources would be OK, but only if a resource could be referenced from two different places in the tree. If data has to be directly inserted into nodes of the tree then it will be problematic, because individual resources may fall into more than one category.

Many Thanks,
Marcus

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gerardryan’s picture

gerardryan commented

Drupal is extremely flexible in organizing user-defined terms. Check out this page in the drupal handbook:
http://drupal.org/book/view/299

that should offer a taste.

Adam’s picture

Adam commented

These are the options you want to look at. Let's say you have a vocabulary called 'Topic'. In this you can have a hierarchy, with terms such as:

  • Operating Systems
    • Distributed Sytems
    • Embedded Systems
  • A.I.
    • Game Theory
    • Natural Language Processing

When you add the topic choose 'related terms' and 'hierarchy'. When you create each topic you set what term is its parent in the hierachy. In this case, AI and Operating Systems have root as its parent, and Game Theory has AI as its parent.

When you create a node, it will have a choice of topic. Since you have multiple select, you can choose, say, Game Theory and Embedded Systems if you have a resource using both. I wonder what kind of resource would deal with both of those at the same time, but you get the idea.