Categories and Tags – Documented Structure
Sometimes, I write blog posts that are more for my own benefit than for the reader. This post is supposed to benefit both parties. I am planning on ramping up the amount of content I write and organizing my posts and related articles will become a critical task. This post documents how I should categorize and tag posts on this site and will give you an idea of how I organize my content. It will also serve as a reference for me, so I can apply a standard system that keeps everything tidy.
CATEGORY:
Today, this is a blog about Wireless Technologies and my experiences with them. I have decided to categorize articles based on radio technology type.
Top Level Categories: (Example)
- Informational – posts that supply information about the site itself (like this one)
- Personal Area Networks
- Wireless LAN
- Low Power WAN
- Mobile / Cellular
Each post must be assigned at least one category based on the radio (or other) technology being discussed. The number of categories should be kept to a minimum, only covering the specific technology in use. I am not going to be able to generate enough content at first, and so I will not use sub-categories (yet). I consider that to be a slippery slope to just having too many categories which is as bad as having none.
I am going to implement some other categories that cut horizontally across the Radio technology types. For instance in some posts i have been talking about how to configure an ODROID as a WLAN Tool, a useful category here is Linux as that will gather all posts that talk about Linux knowledge too. I will use these categories sparingly to prevent category bloat.
Tags will work well to further define the posts’ content. Often times tags may be re-used between categories keeping the structure more flat.
TAGS:
Tags will be used to flesh out the description of the post from the top level Category. The following tag structure should be used:
- Industry Trends: Big Data, IoT, Cloud, Wireless, Mobility, Security, Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization… This is really so non-engineers and people who read NetworkWorld can find my content more easily…)
- Technology: Wireless LAN, PAN, WAN, Low Power WAN…
- Protocol: 802.11, 6LowPAN, Thread, ZigBee, LTE, Sigfox etc…
- Platform: Linux, Windows, AWS, GCE, Azure… etc
- Flavour / Service: DietPi, S3 etc…
- Hardware Platform: ODROID, Raspberry Pi, vendor Name
- Model of Hardware
- Software: Apps used etc.
- Discussion type: Protocol Analysis, Spectrum Analysis, Architecture, Design, Comparison, Optimization, Tutorial
- Topic of the Discussion
OK, so the idea here is that you get a quick and good idea of what the discussion is about from just the tags (thats the point of tags).
So lets look at “Using the ODROID C2 as a WLAN Testing Tool” Series of posts and apply our logic as a test. Tags could include: Mobility, Security, Wireless LAN, 802.11, Linux, DietPi, ODROID, Tutorial, WLAN Tools
That’s a pretty awesome set of tags. At least i think it is.
I may optimize this in the future, but hopefully this structure is capable of lasting some time as editing all your posts and re-tagging them is a pain!