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Automated Clustering of Freetagging Taxonomy Terms

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Automated clustering of freetagging taxonomy terms
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Code it, test it, deploy it
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Lecture
Level of expertise: 
Intermediate
Language: 
English

Launch event for a new suite of modules performing automated clustering of free-tagging taxonomy terms in a Drupal vocabulary.

The School of Everything Taxonomy Suite allows users to express interests and teaching subjects in a large free-tagging vocabulary, and offers new ways of finding matches between subjects. Configurable Normalised Co-occurrence Analysis of taxonomy is used to find related subjects, and thus get round the problem of ever diverging and fragmenting folksonomies.

eg. Taxonomy NCO running on the School of Everything dataset finds that - Tai Chi - is related to: Qigong - Tao Yin - Taoist Yoga - chi kung - kung fu - Taiji - qi gong - Tai Chi Chuan - Meditation - Feng Shou kung fu - relaxation - martial arts - self defence - health - Yang style & Baguazhang.

Modules already released:
- Taxonomy API - API and REST interface
- Taxman - Node Taxonomy Manager
- Node Taxonomy Notifications

To be released at DrupalCon Paris:
- Taxonomy NCO - AKA 'Matchy Matchy'
- Taxonomy NCO Analysis - Normalised Co-occurrence Analysis