[Sigia-l] The A>B, B>A problem

[anne at mindstorm.com]

Seems like in this case it would always be Red Wine > France, since red
wine is not found only in France.

-Anne

> Isn't the point of a taxonomy is to go from global to local?
>
> that is to say, you put the item that contains the most at the top.
> In this case you have a country and you have a category of wine
> Depending on the rest of your taxonomy would depend on which direction
> you would go.
> If it is a wine site you would go in one direction, if it is a site
> about cuisine it might go in another. As to what to call it ... good
> luck! .. ;) If you are contending that they are equal in your problem,
> you may need to deconstruct your problem then.
>
> Whenever I think about taxonomies, I always go back to the first one -
> life. Seems to help me focus. Laneus is the dude, eh?
>
> -- dave
>
>
>
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 12:57:54 -0200, Marcos Rogério
> <marcos.rogerio at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I think Theodor Nelson in his "Literary Machines" (there's an updated
>> version, but I can't remember the name now... but you may find a
>> chapter in "Multimedia. From Wagner to Virtual Reality") says
>> something about it. But he gave no names to this problem. Just said,
>> as you did, there's no solution. All taxonomies are by definition
>> arbitrary.
>>
>> Hope it helps...
>> Marcos
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Is there a name for the problem when, if you are stuck with designing
>> a
>> > simple hierarchy for the web, you have to choose between "Wine >
>> France
>> > > ..." or "France > Wine > ..." and there is no best choice because
>> > users have differing needs? I know this problem has come back in
>> almost
>> > every taxonomy (that is a simple hierarchy) that I have ever done. So
>> I
>> > was wondering if there exists a name for it? Library scientists?
>> >
>> > If not, we should probably coin one...
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Peter
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