Submitted for your consideration

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 21, 2012 at 11:05 PM

Hugh wrote:
>The x-axis is likely to be complicated by the understandable desire of developers
>to create applications that identify, organise and access information as much as
>possible every-which-way - topical placement, tags, linking, wikis, hierarchical
>folders, “artificial intelligence”, maps, diagrams, concordance-based search,
>to name the few I can immediately think of - and therefore will probably be more
>arbitrary. The complexities involved in adding and understanding an extra
>dimension could outweigh the advantages.

Regardless of the terms used (e.g. keywords, tags, categories…) and the way to present the information—which is a completely different issue- I do not think I have seen a way to provide access to information which doesn’t fit under one of the following:
- Topical organisation
- Relationships
- No organisation at all (rely on search)

I’d be very interested in seeing my above claim refuted.

Regarding the taxonomy, to keep things simple I would suggest Search (automatic) - Organisation (proactive) for the X-axis.