by There’s some interest in creating a sysadmin bookshelf, which I think is a great idea. We’ve basically got all the ‘categories’ we need, I think, in the Standards category taxonomy. It’s nice to reuse things for multiple purposes. It gives a sense of coherency to site organization and allows you to browse through things in multiple ways regardless of content type. The next step would be to do something like is done for Tools.
I’m thinking of a Bookshelf content type that would make use of some of the amazon features we have (affiliates program for discounts), or other vendors like Pearson where we have even better discounts. Then, add the voting API to the nodes to allow scoring. Associating them into the taxonomy allows browsing (you could find all books and tools related to Network Visualization. That’d be pretty cool). If anybody would like to work on this (some knowledge of drupal is helpful, but not required), let me know. Seems like about 10 hours of work to get something at least beta quality.
Tools is currently beta quality and I’ve added 2 in as proof of concept. I need to link in the way to browse the tools by category, soon. And we’ll need tool populators, of course.