[Sigia-l] The category of 'Miscellaneous'

[Ruth Kaufman]

[Richard Law:] What good alternative names have you used to group somewhat random content or documents that are not wholly disparate?

At IBM, we started calling a wide variety of stuff "Resources".  The distinction between "resources" and other content is basically that a resource is an information asset that is fully-formed and has meaning and value to the user. A summary, overview, abstract, etc. are not resources -- they're *about* resources. "Resources" is not analagous to "Miscellaneous", but it might help you get back to a more meaningful category. 

Does your team do user engineering to come up with content categories?


HTH,
Ruth