{"id":141,"date":"2009-05-16T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2009-05-16T18:22:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T01:22:08","slug":"10-commandments-of-classification-scheme-analysis-or-how-to-make-a-darn-good-global-nav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"10 Commandments of Classification Scheme Analysis or How to make a darn good global nav"},"content":{"rendered":"

WARNING *** LIBRARY GEEK ALERT **** READING BELOW MIGHT AROUSE DESIRES TO WEAR HORN RIMMED GLASSES & PUT YOUR HAIR IN A BUN<\/p>\n

Back when I started at Argus Associates<\/a> I used to write up little cheat sheets for myself. I made one list of 10 things to help me review global navigations. \u00a0I am not sure if this is useful for anyone else, but I thought I would share. You have been warned it is on the super geeky side of of information architecture.<\/p>\n

Much of this comes from cognitive anthropology and my reading of Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences by Geoffrey C Bowker and Susan Leigh Star.<\/a><\/p>\n


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10\u00a0Commandments\u00a0of\u00a0Classification\u00a0Scheme Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. There should be no need for multiple classifications.<\/li>\n
  2. The granularity of terms must be appropriate across classifications.<\/li>\n
  3. Cross-referencing must be obvious within a\u00a0classification.<\/li>\n
  4. The classification should not be based on just one audience.<\/li>\n
  5. Labels for the same content should be the same.<\/li>\n
  6. Vocabulary terms should clearly describe everything that is included under them.<\/li>\n
  7. Make sure classifications include all necessary terms (comprehensive selection.)<\/li>\n
  8. Beware the\u00a0unlabeled\u00a0covert categories. (These should be on your home page in an implicit way.)<\/li>\n
  9. Act as if your are creating a thesaurus\u00a0with your label choices.<\/li>\n
  10. Your global navigation should have both hierarchical AND ASSOCIATIVE relationships.\u00a0Hierarchy\u00a0isn’t everything.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    WARNING *** LIBRARY GEEK ALERT **** READING BELOW MIGHT AROUSE DESIRES TO WEAR HORN RIMMED GLASSES & PUT YOUR HAIR IN A BUN Back when I started at Argus Associates I used to write up little cheat sheets for myself. I made one list of 10 things to help me review global navigations. \u00a0I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[42,43,46,44,296,45],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navigation","tag-classification-scheme-analysis","tag-global-nav","tag-how-to-validate-global-navigation","tag-labeling","tag-navigation","tag-validation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}