[Sigia-l] Re: first principals (bias in cataloging & classification)

[John O'Donovan-INTERNET]

I think that bias is a sideline issue.

The key thing is to understand the context in which you are working and apply yourself to that context. This should apply to all areas of your design.

So postulating that:

> 12. There is always more than one way to organize a group of anything, but 
> there is always one best way given a unique content set, unique user base > and unique business needs. 

I would say that there is possibly a good combination of these for each context but not a best way. Perhaps this is too pedantic a distinction but given a combination of 

client, user, environment and requirements 

with any given IA you are unlikely to arrive at the same solution. Even with the same IA they might do things differently if given the chance.

This does not matter as long as the solution is a good fit to the client, user, environment and requirements.

Cheers,

jod



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