[Sigia-l] Online card sorting tool WebSort

[Marcel van Mackelenbergh]

Peter,

Whenever we create a category we should make sure people immediately
understand what is meant with it. For example, "car" is clear, "vehicle"
is less clear but also "Goldwing Valkyrie" is less clear. So "clearness"
is not about whether it is more or less concrete but it is about
understanding. Understanding or "What is clear?" of course depends on
your target audience.

The point I tried to make is that creating metadata is a skill, which is
not learned right away. I find it very hard to come up with the right
categories and I am still improving myself. How can we ask people, who
understand less about metadata, to come up with the right categories?
Shouldn't we analyze our target audience, come up with good requirements
and then test it on our target audience?

Cu

Marcel

-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org] On Behalf
Of Peter VanDijck
Sent: vrijdag 5 maart 2004 15:43
To: marcelvanmackelenbergh at home.nl
Cc: 'Dave Collins'; sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Online card sorting tool WebSort


> 4. the metadata should be clear. We have learned from "Women, Fire and
> Dangerous Things" that there are concepts that people understand
> immediately and concepts that more ambiguous, where people do not
> immediately realize what is meant. Metadata should only have clear
> concepts

Marcel,
when you say "clear", are you talking about basic-levelness? I wouldn't
agree categories should only contain basic level concepts. 

Cheers!
Peter
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