[Sigia-l] Categorization question...

[Gary Carlson]

Perhaps one of the other lessons learned here is to understand the
limitations of whatever model is being created up front.  Even with the
best analysis up front there can always be some business requirement
which comes down requiring a look see at the information using facet N+1
(or it may be that the creation or management of facet N+1 is too
expensive or difficult).  
Identifying this up front has helped me search for more flexible models
when working with clients and has helped the clients understand their
data and internal processes better.

Gary Carlson

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Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 1:53 PM
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Everett, Andy 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.	
>     
>  
Andy,

nobody took you aside, as a friend, and said quietly to you "different 
people use information in different ways"? :)

Seriously now, you are talking about taking a hierarchy and how much 
hassle it is to add a second browse dimension/facet to the information. 
My most humble suggestion is that you do not ever look at information in

anything less than n dimensions ever again, where the existing hierarchy

is potentially one acceptable way of categorising the data. We do not 
want Ranganathan and thousands that have come after him to have lived 
and died for nothing.

Best regards, Andrew
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