---
title: "Benjamin Doherty on Taxonomy Fields in Drupal 7"
url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/benjamin-doherty-on-taxonomy-fields-in-drupal-7"
type: episode
date: 2009-10-12
updated: 2014-04-09
---

# Benjamin Doherty on Taxonomy Fields in Drupal 7

#  Benjamin Doherty on Taxonomy Fields in Drupal 7 

  

*Podcast episode player*

[Benjamin Doherty](http://twitter.com/bangpound) aka [bangpound](http://drupal.org/user/100456) was recruited to help overhaul the taxonomy system for Drupal 7 and make [taxonomy compatible with the new fields in core API.](http://drupal.org/node/412518) He talks about that process as well as some of the new features and functionality that taxonomy that will surely make a lot of librarian science-types very happy.

A lot of the inspiration for this core work was from the [Content Taxonomy](http://drupal.org/project/content_taxonomy) module, which is a Drupal 6 module for creating a CCK field type for referencing taxonomy terms.

[Download Audio](https://www.lullabot.com/audio/download/623/DrupalVoices059.mp3)