Better category organization by ontology

antingxu
A better way to organize categories (and tags -- they are duplicated functions and only one should be kept) should be an analogy of gene ontology: the sub nodes automatically inherit all properties from their parent nodes. So if I have three categories A, B and C, and A is the father nodes of B and C, then items in B should have tags A and B, those in C tagging A and C, and those in A tagging only A.

Now the tagging system and the categories are confusing. One entry can be applied to several catagories -- then why do we need tags? In fact, tags are only some transient concepts before the realization of ontology...
  • noksagt
    So if I have three categories A, B and C, and A is the father nodes of B and C, then items in B should have tags A and B, those in C tagging A and C, and those in A tagging only A.
    You can go to about:config and set extensions.zotero.recursiveCollections to true
    One entry can be applied to several catagories -- then why do we need tags?
    Some use tags and collections differently & both are useful to many: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/700

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