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

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Donna Maurer:

> All he wanted to know was if we already had a way to describe the problem...

True enough. 

I won't presume to speak for Dwayne, but I think the underlying assumption
here is that 

a) this is a novel/new problem
b) it deserves its own name
c) and that that name will uniquely describe the issue/process.

A lot of things in IA, including the notion of facets, is nothing new to
folks who have been handling data and RDBMs for ages. I and others have
already said that the reason why you have relational DBs is so that you can
present same data in different hierarchies depending on the context.

Why is this important? Because it's not helpful to invent highfalutin names
specific to IA for things that are common in other domains.

Not that we haven't had this discussion several times on this list.:-)

Ziya
Nullius in Verba