Benjamin Doherty on Taxonomy Fields in Drupal 7
Benjamin Doherty aka bangpound was recruited to help overhaul the taxonomy system for Drupal 7 and make taxonomy compatible with the new fields in core API. 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 module, which is a Drupal 6 module for creating a CCK field type for referencing taxonomy terms.