Taxonomy Basics

List of Categories

A taxonomy is a group of categories or terms that can be used to organize content. If a term is added to a piece of content, the user can then click the term to find all the other pieces of content that have the same assigned term. Taxonomy terms can also be used to create a broad diagram of how content is arranged on the site.

OFA Taxonomies

These are the taxonomies currently in use on the site:

• College. This is a list of all the college acronyms, with the full name of the college included as a description. Eventually, we would be able to use this taxonomy to generate a list of all the OFA information that related to a particular college.
• Committee Types. This list is used to identify which "persons" are on a particular committee. It is also used to identify speakers, such as for the PTK Symposium or other meeting.
• Date Item Type. This list sorts date items so the Faculty Success Trainings all appear together, the PTK Agenda items appear together, and etc. 
• Document Type. This list includes items like APT Form, AEP Policies, or Faculty User Guide. The list needs work because it isn't clear what the difference is between say Form / Template and just plain Template. Watch this space more for detail. :)
• Help Topics. This list organizes the categories of Help information. 
• Information Topics. This list helps users search the site by topic.