In the first part of the book we learned about content types, and how they can be used and enhanced to serve special needs for multimedia content. The next chapters will be about working with this content. If the amount of content grows, we need means to control it. Storing millions of videos in one Plone folder is inefficient in many ways. In this chapter we will focus on the accessibility of content with Plone. This chapter is not about barrier-free websites. It's about structuring big amounts of data in an efficient way.
The main focus will be on categorizing data. As a full-grown content management system, Plone does a lot for structuring its data. It comes with an index and provides a dedicated content type for grouping selected content.
Another topic we will hit is tagging and rating. Almost every web platform with user-generated content provides one of these techniques, if not both, for controlling content. We will see some products that bring tagging and...