Contentful-based stories on the home page

[ManonGros]

Right now there is a hard coded set of stories in the homepage. Ideally, we would like to have something more dynamic that allows us to select stories from contenful that can be displayed on the homepage.

[MortenHofft]

The theme allows for dynamic stories. But we have to decide how to search for them (how to tag them). We can search by pretty much anything. The website currently only allows for showing, dataset use, news and events. And we can filter based on the language

[dnoesgaard]

Based on discussions with @ManonGros, I'd like to propose that we add a filter for Contentful tags. Note, that these live outside the scope of the content model and apply to all content types, e.g.:

{
  "tags": [
    {
      "sys": {
        "type": "Link",
        "linkType": "Tag",
        "id": "crowdin"
      }
    },
    {
      "sys": {
        "type": "Link",
        "linkType": "Tag",
        "id": "grscicoll"
      }
    }
  ]
}

In the first phase, we suggest that tags are added/curated by Secretariat staff. Based on the outcome of the next community call, we can decide what the next phase is.

[ManonGros]

@MortenHofft I have tagged some items in contentful, I checked how the stories are set up in the French portal but I don't understand how it is all put together. I can see this file (https://github.com/gbif/hp-france/blob/master/resourceKey.md) but where is it called?

Do I need to set up a similar file? Can I just put something in https://github.com/gbif/hp-grscicoll/blob/master/_data/navCards.yml? (sorry I am a bit confused)

[MortenHofft]

You cannot search by those tags. They live outside the normal content model that we index. To get it work requires work in how we index: gbif/content-ws#19

If we simply added a tags field to the content model for the various items it would work automatically.

Using the metadata tags is also an option, but doesn't work for now

[MortenHofft]

The resourceKey.md file need to look like that yes. And you need to explicitly say you want to see articles on the site https://github.com/gbif/hp-france/blob/master/_data/examples.yml#L79

[MortenHofft]

@dnoesgaard and @ManonGros are there any specific reason you chose this solution? Being able to tag vocabularies etc isn't necessary. Does it have to do with access permissions? Or being able to handle available tags centrally?

[dnoesgaard]

True, we don't need tags for every single content type.

But it's more convenient to handle tags this way because it's independent from the content types. It's controlled and we don't have to worry about editing content models.

That being said, this is the first real use case (aside from Crowdin).