[Sigia-l] A.B, B>A question

[Arjun Sabharwal]

As a passionate (but sober) wine conoisseur (and seriously 
unemployed in a preferred profession as wine taster), I 
think that both approaches could be taken.  It all depends 
on the context within which the user-website interaction 
takes place.  

Depending on the user's interest, a comprehensive website 
with site maps showing both directions may be helpful.  A 
user may not be familiar with the types of wine coming from 
a region while another one may know the types of wines but 
has little knowledge of the worldwide distribution of those  
wines.  You can have very sweet wines made out of grape (as 
in Tokaj, Hungary) and lychee (as in China).

What about people interested in growing wines in a certain 
region, who wish to cultivate a brand that is not known in 
that area?  Thus, you would want to bring soil chemistry, 
biodiversity, and climatology into the matrix -- anything 
that allows you to grow a species of grape without upsetting 
the local ecology.  This is where a "vertical" paradigm may 
fail.  As far as I have seen, taxonomies have been 
more "vertical", so it may be necessary to 
think "horizontal" also.  

If you want to propose a letter label, the <> signs may be 
insufficient by virtue of signifying a hierarchy.  But, 
let's say, if you want to label the wines A, climate B, 
insects C, geography D, etc., you can possibly develop an 
alphanumeric model like A#-[A#/D#] - [D#/C#] - [B#/E#], so 
the A>B B>A would be replaced with A1>A2, A2>A1.  You can 
further develop this by adding lower case labels and roman 
numberals.  Within a three-dimensional architecture it may 
even be possible...Cheers!

Respectfully,

Arjun Sabharwal
(just another follower of Bacchus)
Arjun Sabharwal
Remote Services Librarian
Baker Center for Graduate Studies
Baker College Online
(810) 766-4210
1116 W. Bristol Road
Flint, MI 48507
arjun.sabharwal at baker.edu