2023-01-23-new-covid19-topic.md

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title: "New GTN Feature Tag-based Topics enables new SARS-CoV-2 topic"
tags: [new topic,new feature, one-health]
contributions:
  authorship: [hexylena,wm75]
layout: news

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The GTN has long struggled with the rigid hierarchy of a single level of classification: topics. All materials had to be organised into a single topic, even when their contents sometimes spanned multiple topics! We added subtopics a while back to help further organise these tutorials, but that still did not solve the issue of needing to collect multiple learn materials in a single location for people to access.

Thus we have finally built tag based topics; these are not topic folders inside the GTN repository, but instead a collection of every tutorial tagged with some specific tag, organised into a new topic. As a demonstration of this, [we have setup a Covid-19 topic.]({{ site.baseurl }}/topics/covid19/)

We apologise for the long delay getting here, development time was quite limited for a long period during the pandemic, and we needed to re-organise some internal structures to better enable these new "views" into the GTN Materials.