[Sigia-l] Terms & the rest of us: Findability (was: Vive la France! Vive Napoleon!!)

[Eric Scheid]

On 19/7/03 8:21 AM, "Derek R" <derekr at derekrogerson.com> wrote:

> I was indicating that the 'concept' of findability is just a
> useless addition because it is already a consequence of Jakob's
> 'scannability'

Not so. You can only scan what you have in front of you. If you cannot find
the thing you want, then you cannot scan it. True, scanning preceding pages
forms part of the process of finding, but other factors enter into it too.

Thus, the thing must be findable, and the quality of that is "findability".

> If you KNOW 'scannability' there is no need to know 'findability' since
> 'finding' is a *consequence* of seeking/scanning (i.e. if you don't
> seek/scan you will NEVER 'find' anything).

Sorry, that's faulty logic. You may well never find anything if you don't
scan, but that doesn't mean that you *will* find if you do scan. There are
other factors.

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