Keyword-Management in Plone [was:] Re: Educational Plone Sprint

Alexander Limi wrote:
>> - Keyword-Management for Plone
 >
> As you have probably figured out by now, keywords are nice in small-to- 
> medium-sized web sites, but breaks down when you try to use it for large 
> amounts of resources.

That's right, but even these small-to-medium-sized webs needs some tools 
to manage their keywords. It's no big issue in my opinion: Just an 
interface which lists all keywords, updates all objects if you change a 
keyword, delete keywords, merge keywords into a new one, etc. Just some 
lines of ZCatalog-Queries, a bundle of PythonScripts and a nice ZPT...;) 
  Viewing "Keyword-Management" this light-weight-way, we can do this at 
a sprint, I guess...

> Topic Maps is an ISO standard for building meaningful relations between 
> entities. 
> It is a powerful way of storing relations between objects, and creating 
> indexes. In my opinion, Topic Maps map very well on to 
> Content Management in general, and Plone in particular.

I agree on this, but this is really a BIG task, which must be done 
properly... running projects can't wait for this to be finished.

> We can't do it for free though, and as we have a unique opportunity to 
> couple some of the best people in the world in the area of XML Topic 
> Maps with the user interface talents of the Plone Team, this is another 
> area where I would like to see some sponsorship.

The budget for e-teaching@university is limited, but I can imagine, that 
we can spent some money into this, too. Maybe there are some other 
universities in Germany who would contribute to topic-map-integration... 
  I'll check this out.

Cheers again, Maik




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