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

From: Peter Van Dijck (peter)
Date: Fri Nov 05 2004 - 09:44:50 EST

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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
(I'll kick the first person who mentions facets. That's not the question.)

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