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If You Do PHP (And We All Do)

By fuzzygroup on

Hi there,

PHP Journal, www.phpj.com, is looking for announcements. Here's the call for announcements. I think we should definitely have something Druaplish in this 1st issue or the 2nd. Thoughts ?

Call for PHP Input

PHP Journal is a new, quarterly technical publication focused on all things PHP. The first issue of PHPJ is scheduled for publication in January 2003, and features a great line-up of columns (that will appear in every issue) and feature stories, all written by experienced PHP developers and authors. If you want to know more about the content of the journal, check our Web site (http://www.phpj.com), which is just starting to take shape. Watch for subscription information between now and January.

One of the regular columns in PHPJ is called "Out in the Open," and it's dedicated to getting PHP community news out to the ommunity. For example, do you run a PHP user group and want to invite others to attend? Are you writing a book about PHP, or are you already published? Have you release a new PEAR module or PHP application that you'd like to share with others? If it's about PHP, we want to hear about it.

If you'd like your announcement to appear in "Out in the Open", please send your announcement in the the following format to phpjed @ phpj.com:

Title (what are you announcing)

WeMaLU Drupal Party!

By jfdill@www.drop.org on

You are cordially invited to attend a drupal party...

Who: Western Massachusetts Linux Users (WeMaLU)
What: drupal party
Where: U. Mass, Amherst (see the WeMaLU website for directions).
When: November 18th, 2002, 7-9pm
Virtual: http://www.jfdill.com/wemalu

Open Source Content Management Conference in April 2003

By fuzzygroup on

I just found this:

http://www.oscom.org/

"Due to the great success of the first and second conference we are organizing another conference at Harvard University, Cambridge/Boston in April 2003. To stay informed please subscribe at our Participants mailing list. "

And put myself on the mailing list. Since this is like 15 minutes from where I live, I'll see if I can give a presentation / attend.

Drupal.org update (2)

By dries on

You might have noticed our website has been redesigned and reorganized, mostly to address the needs of first-time visitors interested in Drupal. This marks the second step (first step here) of an ongoing effort to streamline Drupal.org.

News aggregator tutorial

By dries on

Scott Johnson wrote an excellent tutorial on Drupal's built-in news aggregator:

Rethinking Drupal's meta tags beyond version 3

By jibbajabba on

THE TERM METATAG

Let's stop using the term metatag. I think that there are several directions that we can go to make Drupal's node attributes make more sense. But first, we need to really understand what we're talking about when we say metatag.

A metatag is ONE single descriptive point in a document's larger description within a metadata framework like the Dublin Core (see link below). Metadata as it is commonly used today (e.g. in the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set) separates information about data into: 1) document descriptions (empirical data such as author, title, publisher, date of publication) and 2) knowledge descriptions (usually subject content and description/abstract). What Drupal attributes do is allow for the latter -- classification of nodes by subject. With this concept in mind there are a few directions we might go.

For more info on metadata elements see the Dublic Core Metadata Element Set

SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION

You can think in terms of what Libraries have historically done to get a sense of what is possible. A library catalog is a database holding bibliographic data (metadata) to help you find items in a large collection of data. You can do known item searching by looking for an author name, title, etc -- the document description stuff. But a lot of people want to find similar items, so maybe they find out what an item is about (subject) and browse for other books with the same subject. This is how most people want to use Drupal's attributes, I assume, and they may also want some sense of relationship (perhaps hierarchical, perhaps not) between each subject.

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