[Sigia-l] moving beyond first principles: how?

[Andrew H Otwell]

JJG wrote: 
> "I submit that this field will never make any significant progress if each
> new participant insists on dragging us back to first principles."
>

Jess McMullin responded:
> 
> So I'm left with the question: how can we move beyond first principles,
> while still supporting new IA practitioners?

How about by discussing some actual, live, real-world projects. Marc
Rettig's post this week suggested the same thing.

Try to include a URL to a project *you worked on* when making points about
methods or designs. Link to a sample document you made that illustrates your
point or problem.

Try to include concrete examples of thesauri, vocabs, or navigation schemes
from projects, rather than another wine/fruit/tomato-level example.

*Show us the money.* Even after a couple of years of following SIGIA, I'll
bet you can't point to any actual work done by many of its participants
other than a couple of projects by our few rockstars.

I submit we're not supporting new IAs at all on the list. At least not well.

Ao