[Sigia-l] The new face of web info

[James Weinheimer]

> New technologies will provide new and different *ways* that we can
> organize and present data, as well as providing new and different
> *reasons* to organize and the present the data differently. More is
> different. Faster is different.

This is true, but it's still not completely clear what "organize" means. It
has always meant to bringing similar items together, while exactly what is
considered to be similar may differ from site to site, or even from IA to
IA. On one site, Asian cookery may be under Asia and Cooking, while on
another site, it may just be under Food. So, this means that items that are
considered to be similar on one site, will not be considered similar on
another site, and so, no one can predict how the same information will be
organized.
So, as I see it, the real problem is: how is the poor user supposed to know
this? One site may be organized completely differently, and in a totally
different fashion, from another site. That's the purpose of standardization:
to make it easier for both the metadata creators and the users.
Jim Weinheimer