[Sigia-l] Categorization question...

[Dmitry Nekrasovski]

Andy/Jeremy,

1) Who are the intended users of this folder structure? Presumably it
will need to be used by DoT employees, but why should the end users of
your site care?

2) Why does the folder structure of the data has to be reflected in
the URL structure of your site? Is it possible to develop a parallel
folder structure with human-readable URL names and hide the data
folder structure behind your CMS?

Dmitry

On 8/8/06, Everett, Andy <EveretA at wsdot.wa.gov> wrote:
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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