[Sigia-l] CMS and IA

Laura Norvig lauran at etr.org
Wed Jan 29 20:05:21 EST 2003


In addition to "Categories" our CMS (eZ pub, which is customizable) 
had a feature called "Topic". When I asked the developer what we 
might use that for, he said, "well, we're not using it on this 
project so I'll take it off of the admin interface."

It's true that it may be redundant, as the developer has built us an 
entire system were we can automatically add our own keywords from my 
controlled thesaurus to each article, link, or document, but I really 
was curious as to how "Topic" was intended to be used.

Laura Norvig, MLIS
"Intelligent Human Agent"
lauran at etr.org




At 6:47 PM +0100 1/29/03, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
>* Peter VanDijck
>|
>| Categorization structures. Most CMS's force you into a certain
>| structure of categorization. Often a really simple one ("sections"
>| or "categories"). In my mind, a CMS should separate the
>| categorization from the content - and provide flexible
>| categorization tools that can tie in with different front ends.
>
>I agree completely. I wrote up my thoughts on this in skeleton form at
>   <URL: http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/itms.html >
>
>Comments on that paper would certainly be welcome.
>



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