PloneFacetedClassification (0.1)

Description

Plone Faceted Classification is a system to classify site contents (by any AT content types) by different attributes (facets) so the user can browse them in a very effective way and easily retrieve what (s)he is looking for.

Purpose and use

Plone Faceted Classification allows users (with some editing privileges) to associate different words from different vocabularies previously defined (by a site manager) with ATVocabularyManager. The user can do it by the content classification tab where (s)he finds a list of keywords grouped in different vocabularies. The user has to check the keywords in to associate them with the content. It's not possible to propose a new keyword because the vocabularies are intentionally enforced to reduce the noise and increase the classification's accuracy.

In a general browsing page (one per site), whoever can browse all the contents classified with PFC at once. It's a very simple way to filter also a huge amount of contents, quickly find what you are looking for and, in the while, learn something more about the 'big picture' of the kind of data contained in the site.

To make PFC usable, first, the site manager must define many different vocabularies in ATVocabularyManager as (s)he needs. The site manager has to be careful about using the TreeVocabulary type and only the first 2 levels of the vocabulary (say vocabulary A and its defined keywords).

Then, in the ZMI, the manager has to add manually the portal action named "faceted_classification" to the portal types (s)he wants to classify with PFC.