[Sigia-l] mixing apples and oranges and tomatoes

[Hanna, Holly]

True.  For example, in everyone's favorite example of a faceted thesaurus,
evineyards.com (formerly wine.com), you've got Ravenswood Zinfandel under
type/red wines/zinfandel, as well as under region/Californian/Sonoma Valley
and under winery/R/.  To my mind, this doesn't confuse the user, since
they're going to find what they're looking for regardless of how they go
about doing it (and they'll do it without having to deal with
cross-references).  It's the beauty of a faceted taxonomy.

Holly

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Micah Freedman (w) [mailto:micahf at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 2:11 PM
> To: Tanya Rabourn; sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] mixing apples and oranges and tomatoes
> 
> 
> Isn't the answer to this question, as in many such questions, 
> it depends?
> 
> It depends on what type of audience you have -- general or 
> targeted, novice
> or expert; on how much you know about the audience; on the 
> nature of your
> data -- some data falls nicely into mutually exclusive 
> categories, some
> doesn't; on how many items are trying to go into how many 
> categories (i.e.,
> to what extent does the cross-post muddy the hierarchy).
> 
> .02
> 
> -m
> 
> > If you put an item in more than one spot for someone who 
> isn't in your
> > primary user group, I think you would risk confusing your 
> primary user
> > group for the sake of the minority.
> > 
> > Also, if you abandon the idea of mutually exclusive 
> categories, where do
> > you stop the redundancy?
> > 
> > So what's really necessary, as a couple others suggested, 
> is not to put an
> > odd item in more than one spot, but to put it where your 
> particular users
> > would expect it. 
> 
> 
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