Talk:Categories

--Vincent 10:33, 13 December 2006 (EST): To follow-up on the last 'tags' discussion, here are some thoughts:

General comments: - the search engine constrained on namespaces is helpful. - Could be interesting to build a special page to browse the OWW community, meaning to pre-constrain the search on "User" + "Category" namespaces.

Suggested categories on User page:


 * Geographical location
 * Country
 * State/Region
 * City
 * Institution
 * Lab

- Research interest
 * Synthetic Biology
 * Computational biology
 * Lab techniques

- Skills
 * Wetlab:
 * genetic engineering
 * protein engineering
 * Programming:
 * C
 * Java
 * Matlab
 * Languages:
 * Spanish
 * English
 * French
 * French

A comprehensive list is hard to define (and it should not be fixed anyway), but it could be useful to define a strategy to organize categories (like it has been done for 'People'), and then, let it grow. SubCategories, in MediaWiki, seem a powerful tool to browse a tree in a given ontology.