[Sigia-l] The A>B, B>A problem

[Dave]

Isn't the point of a taxonomy is to go from global to local?

that is to say, you put the item that contains the most at the top.
In this case you have a country and you have a category of wine
Depending on the rest of your taxonomy would depend on which direction
you would go.
If it is a wine site you would go in one direction, if it is a site
about cuisine it might go in another. As to what to call it ... good
luck! .. ;) If you are contending that they are equal in your problem,
you may need to deconstruct your problem then.

Whenever I think about taxonomies, I always go back to the first one -
life. Seems to help me focus. Laneus is the dude, eh?

-- dave



On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 12:57:54 -0200, Marcos Rogério
<marcos.rogerio at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I think Theodor Nelson in his "Literary Machines" (there's an updated
> version, but I can't remember the name now... but you may find a
> chapter in "Multimedia. From Wagner to Virtual Reality") says
> something about it. But he gave no names to this problem. Just said,
> as you did, there's no solution. All taxonomies are by definition
> arbitrary.
> 
> Hope it helps...
> Marcos
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Is there a name for the problem when, if you are stuck with designing a
> > simple hierarchy for the web, you have to choose between "Wine > France
> > > ..." or "France > Wine > ..." and there is no best choice because
> > users have differing needs? I know this problem has come back in almost
> > every taxonomy (that is a simple hierarchy) that I have ever done. So I
> > was wondering if there exists a name for it? Library scientists?
> >
> > If not, we should probably coin one...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Peter
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