[Sigia-l] Categorization question...

[Everett, Andy]

Hi Alexander
   I'll chime in as I'm working with Jeremy on this. We are in the
process of moving existing and new content to Microsoft Content
Management Server. We had decided at the onset to create the channel
structure using faceted classification. Now this is only the folder
architecture (which is a mono-hierarchical taxonomy) and not search or
navigation taxonomic structure. We have attempted to stay to as much of
Line of business /subject orientation as we can given the business
issues we have faced.  This methodology has worked for the most part. We
have been very successful in organizing the web content for most of our
construction projects that are grouped/designed (by the business areas,
politicians, engineers etc )in the scoping phase by State Route. However
with the group of projects that Jeremy described earlier, they are
grouped in the scoping phase by the type of work being done and not the
State Route. This is where our problem exists as we have already
organized most of the projects by the State Route they are on. It seems
we have classified ourselves into a corner. We could have avoided this
problem if we had foreseen the issue. Nothing in the content analysis
that we had done pointed to this happening. However, politicians are
unpredictable.	
    
  The folder structure for content management is one aspect in a
enterprise information architecture for the department that also
includes organizational structures for web services, thin client
applications, document management, image and video management, business
intelligence reporting, geospatial data organization. The emphasis on
building these structures has been the logical/semantic relationships we
have within our data and information.

  When we improve our navigation taxonomies, we can take your
suggestions into consideration.
    
Cheers

Andy Everett
Data Catalog Administrator
Taxonomist
Office of Information Technology
Washington State Department of Transportation
Phone: 360-705-7622
Fax:360-705-6817
PO Box 47430
Tumwater, WA 98501-6504


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From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On
Behalf Of Alexander Johannesen
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 4:29 PM
To: Bertrand, Jeremy
Cc: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Categorization question...

Hi,

On 8/8/06, Bertrand, Jeremy <BertraJ at wsdot.wa.gov> wrote:
> Most of them are very easy to categorize by highway #, I-5, I-90, but 
> we have run into an issue with a new project naming convention and 
> could use your help.

I read through your stuff and I'm a bit stumped to understand what your
problem actually is. :) Could you explain why you need to classify these
projects? Are you creating a next iteration of that website and want to
come up with something better (because of the number of projects
involved)?

If so, I'd go with facetted classification, in which you classify your
projects with a number of parameters, and create a simple navigation
means to resolve to what people want. All you need to do is to find the
various parameters (roadside safety, highways it affects, counties,
people, funding models, etc.)

But as I said, I'm keen to understand why you want to classify things ;
what do you want to achieve?


Kind regards,

Alexander
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