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

[Dwayne King]

Perhaps the user should decide. Ala, "I want to search by region" or "I 
want to search by wine type"




On Nov 5, 2004, at 6:53 AM, Peter Van Dijck wrote:

> The example I meant to give was:
> "Red Wine > France  > ..." or "France > Red Wine > ..."
>
> Sorry!
> P
>
>> 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?
>
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