[Sigia-l] Combining a FC with distributed authorship

[Andrew McNaughton]

It might be helpful to think of your metadata based navigation systems as
a portal to content on the intranet, with the actual content external to
the portal.  Much like a portal on theinternet that indexes other people's
content.

In terms of file structures and so forth, it may be entirely unnecessary
to move your content.  The metadata based system can act independently and
provide links to the original locations.

Andrew McNaughton



On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Antony & Donna Maurer wrote:

> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 22:00:49 +1000
> From: Antony & Donna Maurer <amber at maadmob.net>
> Reply-To: maadmob at bigpond.com
> To: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: [Sigia-l] Combining a FC with distributed authorship
>
> 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
> wwww.maadmob.net
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