This is the source of sapienshabitat.com.
Information architecture and URL design
Rowan has decided against using any type of namespaces in the URL structure. What kind of content you're looking at should become obvious from looking at it. Even though the site is technically a blog, publication dates are not exposed in the URLs.
As an example, here follows the URL of what will be the first article on this site:
http://sapienshabitat.com/wallflower-refuge/
Yes, there will be a ending slash, because that makes working with the source files easier.
There won't be separate taxonomy pages, like /tag/permaculture or
/scope/garden. Instead, taxonomies will be revealed on the home page:
http://sapienshabitat.com/
This will basically be a sitemap with various visual areas with the different taxonomic categories.
Additionally, all/some taxonomically related pages will be revealed in the navigation area of each page.
Source format and transformation
Page content is written in Markdown. Each page has its own subdirectory in
/pages/. The Markdown files have a YAML header. The YAML metadata includes a
taxonomy part with is combined with the project-wide taxonomy.yaml file.
The global taxonomy.yaml file
If we take a Markdown source file with the following YAML header:
---
title: A wallflower refuge
date: 2017-04-30
keywords:
- wallflower
- “Erysimum cheiri”
- “muurbloem”
- “The problem is the solution.”
- Bill Mollison
taxonomy:
author: bigsmoke
project: schuilplaats
theme: [low-frequency-gardening]
scope: garden
---The meta data will be combined with the meta data defined for each of the taxonomy terms in taxonomy.yaml:
project:
schuilplaats:
insert: schuilplaats
keywords:
- “De Schuilplaats”
- Norg
- Drenthe
- vakantiehuis
- vakantiehuisje
page: schuilplaats-norg
scope: [landscape, garden]
author:
bigsmoke:
author: Rowan Rodrik van der Molen
insert: bigsmoke
theme:
low-frequency-gardening:
keywords:
- propagule pressure
forest-gardening:
keywords:
- forest gardening
agroecology:
keywords:
- agroecology
- permaculture