[Sigia-l] Combining a FC with distributed authorship

[Antony & Donna Maurer]

Hi everyone

I have a hard question today (well, I guess all questions are hard if 
you don't know the answer).

I'm doing a 2-part project at the moment - redesigning an Intranet, 
and choosing a content management system for it.

I want to do some of the things that a faceted classification system 
will allow, particularly letting users get to content in a number of 
ways, rather than having a single hierarchy for them to navigate.

We will have distributed authorship. The data repository will be a 
database, not a file system (so content will not 'live' anywhere).

In the current system, the repository is a file system, based 
primarily along organisational lines, and the navigation follows this 
system.  This is bad for users, but great for authors as they know 
where 'their' content is. 

I am struggling to figure out how to get authors to 'their' content 
easily in the new system, as their content may not all be grouped 
together, but may be in separate 'areas' of the site.

Has anyone managed this?? 

(Gosh I hope this makes sense - I have a splitting headache after 
arguing about this for an hour with a developer)

Donna
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