[Sigia-l] Combining a FC with distributed authorship

[Stewart, Erin [NEA]]

Hi Donna,

Look for a CMS that has an internal search engine on the doc base -- one that retrieves on all metadata and on full text, so your users can specify a key word or phrase plus their name to bring up only their files.

Another tip is to develop a searchable/sortable controlled vocabulary for "genre" (resource "type" in Dublin Core) such as "correspondence," "position papers", "standard operating procedures", "press releases", "territory maps", "quarterly statements", etc.).  This has worked for me when I involve users in the development of the vocab -- either through a card-sorting exercise or a focus group that starts with brainstorming the types and then validates them by a thorough but random sampling of objects off the LAN (or wherever the current doc base(s) are).

Erin

-----Original Message-----
From: Donna Maurer [mailto:donna at maadmob.net]
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 8:03 AM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: [Sigia-l] Combining a FC with distributed authorship


Hi everyone

I have a hard question today (well, I guess all questions are hard if 
you
don't know the answer).

I'm doing a 2-part project at the moment - redesigning an Intranet, 
and choosing a content management system for it.

I want to do some of the things that a faceted classification system 
will
allow, particularly letting users get to content in a number of ways,
rather than having a single hierarchy for them to navigate.

We will have distributed authorship. The data repository will be a 
database, not a file system (so content will not 'live' anywhere).

In the current system, the repository is a file system, based 
primarily along organisational lines, and the navigation follows this
system.  This is bad for users, but great for authors as they know 
where
'their' content is. 

I am struggling to figure out how to get authors to 'their' content 
easily in the new system, as their content may not all be grouped 
together, but may be in separate 'areas' of the site.

Has anyone managed this?? 

(Gosh I hope this makes sense - I have a splitting headache after 
arguing about this for an hour with a developer)

Donna
wwww.maadmob.net

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