Tags

[peterdesmet]

@peterdesmet is there a replacement concept for tags? We don't currently have a good list of keywords (that I know of) used for these, but that also may account for lack of good use for this type of feature.

Originally posted by @gkampmeier in https://github.com/tdwg/website-jekyll/issues/4#issuecomment-1312555547

[peterdesmet]

Jekyll supports both tags and categories, but we'll indeed have to see if they are actually used on the current website. I think there is tag functionality for:

• [x] Standards, e.g. technical specification and current standard for https://www.tdwg.org/standards/dwc/, but that information is repeated in the common header for each standard
• [x] Standard overview page: I'll investigate if we need tags for this
• [x] IG/WG pages, e.g. interest group on https://www.tdwg.org/community/annotations/
• [x] Community page: I'll investigate if we need tags for this
• [x] Blog posts, e.g. at https://www.tdwg.org/news/2022/interest-and-task-group-working-sessions, but the tags aren't clickable. They are coded as categories in Jekyll here and do allow to filter blog posts, see https://tdwg.github.io/website-jekyll/news/?category=Interest+Group

[gkampmeier]

I like that categories are actually functional as filters--in this case, I'm not sure what we would use tags for if they don't have this functionality. We need to develop and post a (working) controlled vocabulary available to website developers as a reminder of what can/should be used.

[peterdesmet]

Note: I have now renamed them as tags (rather than categories), so post content won't have to be updated.

[gkampmeier]

@peterdesmet in looking at the Community page, I noticed that the term tag(s) is used to pop in interest and task groups (as part of the header information)

tags: tag_sections: Interest group, Task group template: page_tag_sections

and that these tag links to tiled content (e.g., https://www.tdwg.org/community/#interest-group) use the hyphen rather than "%20" for spaces, whereas the links above those for Community support fund, for example, still use https://www.tdwg.org/community/#community%20support%20fund. I don't know if this screws up your renaming of categories to tags...?

[peterdesmet]

Tags are no longer used for pages, but are kept for posts. Overview pages such as Standards and Community list pages as defined in the frontmatter metadata, e.g. https://github.com/tdwg/website/blob/master/standards/index.md?plain=1#L12-L35