[Sigia-l] Roses and nameses (was Re: job posting - Usability Consultant - consultancy side - London

[andrew at humaneia.com]

Quoting Ziya Oz <listera at earthlink.net>:

> andrew at humaneia.com:
>
>> a sexier term for "Information Classification"
>
> That would open up a discussion of what "sexy" is. :-)
>
> For a taxonomical homage, I'd go with Linné.

Sexy is what sells (sex sells) :) Selling a concept to people with 
varying degrees of experience within the field depends on identifying 
key benefits. We need a name that captures the benefit - imagine "if 
all your (client's) information has totally gone to hell, call on this 
capability area to help sort it out".

It is sad to have to use the label, but necessary to draw a rough line 
around the concept so that we can write some promotional material.

I am starting to think, based on your suggestion, that we might use 
something like "Linné's Legacy: Managing Information by Classification" 
(even though this is not strictly correct, i.e. classification is only 
one facet of information management).

Thanks for the suggestion :)

Cheers, Andrew

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