tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36055287.post3835349385726635568..comments2007-12-23T17:03:08.950ZRed Kitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10547828630177637153noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36055287.post-47866624131263831282007-11-17T23:35:00.000Z2007-11-17T23:35:00.000ZWhat is harder than herding cats? Getting information into folders.<BR/>So much of the information we create is already tagged, for example, all the files in my organisation have a "State Water" tag, and then are tagged by the division creating them, the date, the author, the subject, the document title and possibly more, automatically. I mean that "just happens" because they are created on our computer system. Now, why would I then insist that the corporate records system requires the users to assign terms from the BCS? If my BCS worked, wouldn't those terms appear in the title, perhaps? If not, couldn't I have a folder at a macro level with the best BCS terms predicted for that information? If its the engineers, then "facilities and assets maintenance" seems pretty close. If I insist they also include the name of the structure they are working on, then along with the automatically created metadata referred to earlier, that might be sufficient structure. And the user only had to select one high level term aqnd ensure the name of the main structure appeared somewhere. So what if they get 1000 hits on "Wyangala Dam" - its the largest structure we control, and either browsing or searching can reveal "plans" "invoices" "valves" or whatever, from "browse within results". Isn't that simple?David Poveyhttp://davidpovey.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com